Sidney Arthur Winchester MiD Rank: Flight Lieutenant Status: Prisoner of War 1944-10-04

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Winchester, Sidney Arthur MiD (Flight Lieutenant)

Prisoner of War 1944-October-04

Male Head

Birth Date: unkown date (age )

Decorations: MiD

Service
RCAF

Unit
502 (B) Sqn- Squadron (RAF)
Nihil Timeo (I fear nothing)

Rank

Flight Lieutenant

Marshal
Air Chief Marshal	A/C/M
Air Marshal	A/M
Air Vice Marshal	A/V/M
Air Commodore	A/C
Group Captain	G/C
Wing Commander	W/C
Squadron Leader	S/L
Flight Lieutenant	F/L
Flying Officer	F/O
Pilot Officer	P/O
Warrant Officer 1st Class	WO1
Warrant Officer 2nd Class	WO2
Flight Sergeant	FS
Sergeant	SGT
Corporal	CPL
Senior Aircraftman	SAC
Leading Aircraftman	LAC
Aircraftman 1st Class	AC1
Aircraftman 2nd Class	AC2

Position

Service Numbers
J/10019
8717

1944-10-03: embarked on a Rover patrol from 502Sqn aerodrome into the Kattegat region of Sea off Denmark.

They were shot down by an armed steamer and made a safe ditching in the sea sufficient for all crew to de-plane. Their dingy was destroyed in the action so they were left in the very cold sea. About five or six hours after the crash they were picked up by the ship that shot them down. By that time F/O Conlon, W/O McLaughlin and Sgt Allen were missing. F/O La Palme's body washed up on the shore of Norway and was buried there.

The dead: F/Sgt Reginald Godfrey Allen RAF 1397157 KIA Runnymede Memorial : Panel 215. F/O Hugh Thomas Conlin RCAF J/86034 KIA Runnymede Memorial Panel 245. F/O Joseph Armand Roger Lucien La Palme RCAF J/18647 KIA Mandal Churchyard grave I. 2. 12., Norway. W/O Charles McLaughlin RAF 643195 KIA Runnymede Memorial.

Three POWs: W/C Charles Aubrey Maton RAF 76222 POW Stalag Luft L3 Sagan and Belaria F/O Ian Edwin Osbourne RAF 142463 POW Stalag 3D Berlin-Steglitz F/Lt Sidney Arthur Winchester RCAF J/10019 POW Stalag Luft L3 Sagan and Belaria

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Lancaster FM213

Andrew Mynarski, VC

Winchester, Sidney Arthur MiD (Flight Lieutenant)

Prisoner of War 1944-October-04

502 (B) Sqn- Squadron (RAF) Nihil Timeo

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