Name
Sydney Morris
Conflict
Second World War
Date of Death / Age
23/05/1944
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Flight Sergeant
567720
Royal Air Force
57 Sqdn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
Hoogkerk (Kerkstraat) General Cemetery
Plot C. Row 7. Coll. grave 21-25.
Netherlands
Headstone Inscription
None
UK & Other Memorials
Not on the Hitchin memorials
Biography
His Service Number was 567720 and he was attached to 57 Squadron as an Air Bomber. At the time of his death the Squadron was based at East Kirkby north of Boston in Lincolnshire and was flying Lancaster bombers.
Lancaster III NE127 DX-J took off at 22.23hrs for a raid on Braunschweig but was shot down by a German night-fighter. The bomber crashed at 23.45hrs at Dorkwerd (Groningen) some 5km northwest from the centre of Groningen. Of the seven members of the crew two became prisoners-of-war. Curiously, the grave area contains the bodies of two Canadian soldiers killed during the liberation of the Netherlands in 1945.
He was buried in Plot C. Row 7, Collective Grave 21-25 in the Hoogkerk-(Kerkstraat) General Cemetery near Groningen in the Netherlands.
He was the son of Thomas Lewis and Anne Morris and the husband of Ruth Elvia Morris of Hitchin.
Acknowledgments
David C Baines – ‘Hitchin’s Century of Sacrifice’, ‘RAF Squadrons’ by C.G. Jefford, ‘Bomber Command Losses’ by W.R. Chorley
