Warner, Sydney George Adolphus
Personal Information
Rank | F/O |
Forename(s) | Sydney George Adolphus |
Surname | Warner |
Gender | M |
Age | |
Decorations | |
Date of Death | 28-08-1944 |
Next of Kin |
Aircraft Information
Aircraft | de Havilland Mosquito XVI |
Serial Number | ML965 |
Markings | P3- |
Memorial Information
Burial/Memorial Country | Germany |
Burial/Memorial Place | Rheinberg War Cemetery |
Grave Reference | 18. D. 16. |
Epitaph |
IBCC Memorial Information
Phase | 2 |
Panel Number | 260 |
Enlistment Information
Service Number | 169580 |
Service | Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve |
Group | 8 |
Squadron | 692 (Fellowship of the Bellows) |
Trade | Pilot |
Country of Origin | United Kingdom |
Other Memorials
Location | Adjacent to former Main Entrance, Graveley, Cambridgeshire |
Country | United Kingdom |
Memorial Type | Memorial Stone Inscribed Slate Tablet |
Memorial Text | A memorial to 692 Sqn and 35 Sqn which flew from RAF Graveley during WW2 |
Miscellaneous Information
His alma mater was the highly regarded Latymer Upper School, Hammersmith, London which lost an incredible 26 of their alumni to Bomber Command in WW2. |
Excerpt from "The Fallen Latymerians of The Second World War": The son of Mr A. A. Warner, a Commercial Traveller of 29 Devonport Rd, Shepherds Bush and then 17 Lingwood Gardens, St Mary’s Crescent in Osterley, Sydney George Adolphus Warner was born on October 22nd 1914. He attended St Stephen’s Church of England School and entered Class 1B at Latymer on September 14th 1926, leaving from Class 4A in April 1930 to take up a Clerkship in an Estate Agent’s Office, being, as the then Headmaster noted, ‘compelled to leave owing to his father’s financial circumstances.’ He was first listed in the Summer 1944 edition of ‘The Latymerian’ as serving in the R.A.F. with the rank of Pilot Officer and stationed near Hull: The Autumn 1944 ‘Latymerian’ records that, now a Flying Officer in Bomber Command, he had been reported missing, presumed killed, after a Mosquito raid on Mannheim. His death in that raid during August 1944 was confirmed in the Spring 1945 edition of the magazine. |
Commonwealth War Graves Commission
The National Archives
Last Operation Information
Start Date | 27-08-1944 |
End Date | 28-08-1944 |
Takeoff Station | Gransden Lodge |
Day/Night Raid | Night (61% moon) |
Operation | Mannheim. One of 30 Mosquitoes |
Reason for Loss | His alma mater was the highly regarded Latymer School, Edmonton, London which lost an incredible 26 of their alumni to Bomber Command in WW2. |