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Sgt. Sidney James Holroyd Jones

Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve 106 Squadron

(d.8th Nov 1941)

Sergeant (Wireless Operator/Air Gunner) Sidney James Holroyd Jones RAFVR of 106 Squadron RAF was killed in action on 8th November 1941. At 01.05 on the 8th of November Handley Page Hampden AD932 took off from RAF Conningsby in Lincolnshire to lay mines in Oslo Fjord. A radio message was received that the aircraft was down in the sea 48 miles East of Wick, one of three 106 Squadron aircraft lost on this operation.

Sergeant Jones is buried in Kirwall (St Olaf) cemetery in Orkney. The other three crew members have no known grave and are commemorated on the Air Forces Memorial at Runnymede.



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