Pilot Officer Sydney Jack Guiver, 174686

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  • Unit - Royal Air Force
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  • Date of Birth -
  • Died - 13/08/1944
  • Age - 23

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Source: Leicestershire War Memorials Project.
Sydney was the 3rd child of Frederick George and Maud Emily Guiver of Southend-on-Sea. following his aircrew training, he was posted as a Sgt Navigator onto Lancaster bombers. Sydney married Dora Isabel Gunning in 1944 in Holywell, Flintshire in Wales. Sydney Jack Guiver is buried in the Sutton Road Cemetery, Southend-on-Sea.
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Taken from the Melton Mowbray Wellington Bomber crash site memorial, 2018.
Photograph courtesy of Royal Air Forces Association website:
https://www.rafa.org.uk/melton-mowbray/what-we-do/we-will-remember-them/wellington-ln281-memorial

Leicestershire Project Findings
  • Conflict - Non-Combat Deaths, World War II
  • Cause of death - Flight accident
  • Place of death - Melton Mowbray
  • Burial Place - Sutton Road Cemetery, Southend-on-Sea
  • Other Memorials - Melton Mowbray Wellington Bomber Crash site

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