The Airmen's Stories - Sgt. C Sydney

Charles Sydney, of St. Mary Cray, Kent, joined the RAF in September 1930 as an aircraft apprentice and passed out in 1933 as a metal rigger. He was later accepted for pilot training.

On August 18th 1940 Sydney was posted to 19 Squadron at Fowlmere. Further postings to 266 Squadron on August 24th and then 92 Squadron at Biggin Hill on September 10th followed. He may have destroyed a Me109 on September 15th.

He was shot down and killed on September 27th, his Spitfire R6767 coming down at Station Avenue, Walton-on-Thames. The site has been marked by a plaque (below).

He was 25 years old and is buried in St. Mary Cray Cemetery, Orpington, Kent.

Photographs courtesy of Dean Sumner