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Flight Sergeant SIDNEY ASHTON SIMS

Service Number: 1336691
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve

605 Sqdn.

Date of Death

Died 06 September 1943

Age 20 years old

Buried or commemorated at

BASRA WAR CEMETERY

8. J. 8.

Iraq

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Sidney Herbert and Alice Gertrude Sims, of Carshalton, Surrey.
  • Personal Inscription 'TIS THAT I FLEW THE HEAVENS TOO HIGH, AND REACHED GOD'S GUIDING HAND
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Buried or commemorated at

BASRA WAR CEMETERY
Iraq
Number of casualties: 3071
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