Sidney Michael Holliman       Photo: Knud Riis      Updated: 29 NOV 2021

Airman: a014148.htm Surname: Holliman Init: S M Rank: F/O Service: RAF Sqdn: 218

P_link: p178.htm Plane: STI EF356 Operation: Minelaying Crash_site: Near Aadum

Crash_d: d290443 Buried_d: b070543 C_link: c014.htm At_Next: Esbjerg, A. 9. 2

Den 29. april 1943 styrtede STI EF356 ned ved Aadum (der er her). Flyet var sammen med mange
andre fly på en stor minelægningsoperation over Østersøen og de danske farvande. Kl. 02.30 udsendte
dette fly SOS signal over radioen, hvorpå man ikke hørte mere til flyet, der styrtede ned ved Aadum.
 
P/O Holliman blev begravet i Esbjerg den 7. maj og Sgt Head samme sted den 24. maj 1943. (Kilde: FAF)

Dette Stirling bombefly styrtede brændende ned på en mark over for Rosendalvej 4, 6880 Tarm her, overblik her (Kilde: Hans Vestergaard i Flystyrt ved Aadum til Aadum lokalarkiv via Dagmar Vestergaard.)

Flying Officer (Air Bomber) Sidney Michael Holliman, 21 år, var søn af Sidney og Margaret Holliman, Cockfosters, Middlesex, United Kingdom. (Kilde: CWGC)

4 flyvere fra STI EF356 blev begravet i Aadum og 2 i Esbjerg. 1 døde som krigsfange i Tyskland.
7 flyvere.

On 29 April 1943 STI EF356 crashed at Aadum (which is here).
Together with many other planes this plane wason a big minelaying operation over the Baltic Sea and
Danish waters. At 0230 hours this plane sent SOS over the radio, and nothing more was heard from
the plane which crashed at Aadum.  
P/O Holliman was buried in Esbjerg on 7 May and on 24 May 1943 Sgt Head was buried in the same cemetery. (Source: FAF)

This Stirling bomber crashed, burning, into a field opposite Rosendalvej 4, 6880 Tarm here, overview here. (Source: Hans Vestergaard in Air crash near Aadum to Aadum lokalarkiv via Dagmar Vestergaard.)

Flying Officer (Air Bomber) Sidney Michael Holliman, 21, was the son of Sidney and Margaret Holliman,
of Cockfosters, Middlesex, United Kingdom. (Source: CWGC) Requiescant in pace
He is remembered on The Walls of Names at the International Bomber Command Centre, Ph 2, P 183.   

4 airmen from STI EF356 were buried in Aadum and 2 in Esbjerg. 1 died as a POW in Germany.
See No. 218 (Gold Coast) Squadron RAF * No. 218 (Gold Coast) Squadron Association * Short Stirling 
Stirling I EF356 HA-O took off from RAF Downham Market at 2105 hours on 28 APR 1943. (Source: Aircrew Remembered has this.)  7 airmen.