Auction Catalogue

19 September 2003

Starting at 11:00 AM

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Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria. To coincide with the OMRS Convention

Grand Connaught Rooms  61 - 65 Great Queen St  London  WC2B 5DA

Lot

№ 679

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19 September 2003

Hammer Price:
£170

Three: Sergeant S. N. Symondson, No. 15 (Oxford’s Own) Squadron, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve

1939-45 Star; Air Crew Europe Star; War Medal, together with named transmission slip and card box of issue addressed to father at Harrow, Middlesex, nearly extremely fine (3) £120-150

Sidney Norman Symondson was killed in action whilst on a bombing operation to Lille on 19 July 1941 in a Stirling, when his plane was hit by flak while trying to bomb a secondary target at Dunkerque. The port inner engine caught fire and shortly afterwards the bomber dived vertically into the ground at Killem, 2km. S.W. of Hondschoote, France. Six members of the crew, including Symondson were killed and two others taken prisoner of war. Sergeant Symondson is buried in Dunkirk Town Cemetery, France.