Sidney Arnold Crump

I whānau mai i te 24 Nov 1915 - I mate atu i te 23 Dec 1941

Nama Hōia: NZ411978 AWMM
Ingoa kārangaranga: Sydney AWMM
Sydney AWMM
Syd AWMM
Te Ope o Tū / te peka: Air Force AWMM
Te tūnga whakamutunga: Pilot Officer AWMM Royal Air Force, No. 21 Operational Training Unit AWMM
Pakanga: World War II, 1939-1945 AWMM

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Biography for Sidney Arnold Crump. RNZAF [Royal New Zealand Air Force] Biographies of Deceased Personnel 1939 - 1945 (Bound Volumes) - Co - Dy. Archives New Zealand (R17845609-0283). CC-BY 2.0.

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Sidney Crump was the son of Harry and Lily Crump, Feilding.

Educated at Feilding Agricultural High School.

Champion sportsman and musically inclined.

Mention is made of Syd Crump in the diary of Eric Perks, a copy of which is held in the Museum Library. The entry reads 'Clarrie had a letter from Mackay saying that Ken Rogers, Syd Crump and Roy Wilson (Wigram) had been killed at OTUS.'

Attended Feilding Agricultural High School (Source: RNZAF Biographies (R17845609)) AWMM
23rd December 1941: Vickers Wellington Mk 1c DV422 of 21, Operational Training Unit took off from RAF Edgehill for general handling practice. While demonstrating stalling and recovery the aircraft went into a dive and at 14:20 crashed and burned near Wild Spring Farm, Little Tew, 5 miles east-north-east of Chipping Norton with the loss of 6 crew :

Squadron Leader Reginald George Williams DFC AFM, pilot, Royal Air Force, aged 35. He is buried in Moreton-in-Marsh Cemetery. Squadron Leader Williams was awarded the AFM on 2nd January 1939, and awarded his DFC on 31st May 1940. He was the leader of A flight and in July 1941 had successfully force landed a stricken Wellington at Edgehill.

Pilot Officer Sidney Crump, pilot, aged 26 of the Royal New Zealand Air Force. He is buried in Moreton-in-Marsh Cemetery and was the son of Harry and Lily Crump, of Feilding Wellington, New Zealand.

Pilot Officer Ian Curtis Grant, pilot, aged 23 of the Royal New Zealand Air Force. He is buried in Moreton-in-Marsh Cemetery and was the son of Ian and Myrtle Grant, of Inglewood, Taranaki, New Zealand.

Pilot Officer Reginald John Hopkins, air gunner, aged 24. He is buried in Brookwood Cemetery, Surrey and was married to Barbara Dawn Hopkins, of Manor Park, Essex.

Flight Sergeant Ronald Ivor Peach, wireless operator/air gunner, aged 20. He is buried in Sheffield Shiregreen Cemetery and was the son of Joseph and Nancie Peach.

Sergeant Howard Gordon Kelly, air gunner, aged 20. He is buried in Maltby Cemetery and was the son of Fred and Maud Kelly of Maltby, South Yorkshire.
Public - Jenifer - Researcher - 7 April 2018 - UK website : "Wartime Plane Crashes Around Chipping Norton".

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Hononga ki waho: Papers Past. Digital New Zealand Newspapers.
http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast
Sources Used
Papers Past. Digital New Zealand Newspapers.
http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast
Sources Used
New Zealand Roll of Honour. Deaths. Evening Post, Volume CXXXII, Issue 156, 30 December 1941, Page 1
http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=search&d=EP19411230.2.4&srpos
Sources Used
Commonwealth War Graves Commission record
https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-details/2451475
Sources Used
RNZAF [Royal New Zealand Air Force] Biographies of Deceased Personnel 1939 - 1945 (Bound Volumes) - Co - Dy. Archives New Zealand (R17845609)
https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R17845609
Sources Used
List of RNZAF [Royal New Zealand Air Force] Personnel - List of Personnel Killed or Missing in Various Theatres, 1940 - 1945. Archives New Zealand (R17845748)
https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R17845748
Sources Used
Ngā tuhinga: Martyn, E. (1998-2008). For Your Tomorrow (Vols. 1-3). Christchurch, N.Z.: Volplane Press.
Feilding Agricultural High School War Memorial volume. (1948). Feilding, N.Z.: Feilding Agricultural High School (N.Z.). Old Pupils' Association.
Portrait p.19.
The Evening Post
Feilding Agricultural High School War Memorial volume. (1948). Feilding, N.Z.: Feilding Agricultural High School (N.Z.). Old Pupils' Association.
Obituary: p.36.
RNZAF [Royal New Zealand Air Force] Biographies of Deceased Personnel 1939 - 1945 (Bound Volumes) - Co - Dy. Archives New Zealand (R17845609) - Former archives reference: AIR118
Please note that the 11 volumes of the "RNZAF [Royal New Zealand Air Force] Biographies of Deceased Personnel 1939-1945" held at Archives NZ (formerly known as AIR118) should be used in conjunction with Errol Martyn's "For Your Tomorrow". FYT reflects detailed examination of all of the AIR118 bios which contain many inaccuracies and omissions.
List of RNZAF [Royal New Zealand Air Force] Personnel - List of Personnel Killed or Missing in Various Theatres, 1940 - 1945. [List of Killed - Officers (Canada, Pacific, Europe) - Airmen (Canada, India and Far East)]. Archives New Zealand (R17845748)
List of RNZAF [Royal New Zealand Air Force] Personnel - Embarkation Lists, November 1940 - July 1942. Archives New Zealand, Wellington (R17845762).

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