Arthur George Percival Sindrey  Photo: Knud Riis  Updated: 29 NOV 2021
                                                                            
Airman: a114003.htm Surname: Sindrey Init: AGP Rank: Sgt Service: RAF Sqdn: 218

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

Crash_d: d290443 Buried_d: b230543 C_link: c114.htm At_Next: Aadum

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.
4 flyvere fundet i flyvraget blev begravet i Aadum den 23. maj 1943 ved sognepræst S. Andersen. (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.)

Sergeant (Navigator) Arthur George Percival Sindrey, 21 år, var søn af William Percival og Fanny Elizabeth Sindrey, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, 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 was on 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.
4 airmen found in the wreck of the plane were buried in Aadum on 23 May 1943 by Vicar S. Andersen.
(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.)

Sergeant (Navigator) Arthur George Percival Sindrey, 21, was the son of William Percival and
Fanny Elizabeth Sindrey, of Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, United Kingdom. (Source: CWGC)
Cherished memories of our dearly loved only son
He is remembered on The Walls of Names at the International Bomber Command Centre, Phase 2, Panel 242. 

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.