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Sergeant Arthur George Percival Sindrey; educated at Cheltenham Grammar School; enlisted Royal Air Force, January 1941 and after a period of training in the U.S.A. was posted to Bomber Command; was serving with 218 Squadron, Downham Market (Stirling´s) in 1943.
During February-April of that year he flew in several operational sorties over heavily defended German targets including: Berlin (2); Hamburg; Stuttgart and Mannheim.
On 29.4.1943, when taking part in a ´Gardening´ operation on Wilhelmshaven, his Sterling Bomber (EF356, piloted by Sgt. K.S. Hailey), ´T/o 2105 Downham Market. Shot down by a night fighter and crashed 0035 at Oddum, roughly midway twixt Esbjerg´ (Bomber Command Losses of the Second World War, refers)
All members of the crew were killed, except one who was taken P.O.W. and later died in captivity;
Sindrey is buried in Gravelund Cemetery Esbjerg, Denmark. 22 Aircraft were lost that night, the heaviest loss whilst minelaying during the War.
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