LEST WE FORGET
Warrant Officer Sidney George LEE
Service No: 420819
Born: Hamilton NSW, 15 March 1921
Enlisted in the RAAF: 5 December 1941
Unit: No. 238 Squadron (RAF)
Died: Air Operations: (No. 238 Squadron Spitfire aircraft BS530), Italy, 21 September 1944, Aged 23 Years
Buried: Milan War Cemetery, Italy
CWGC Additional Information: Son of George William and Olive Elvina Lee, of Pelican Flats, New South Wales, Australia
Roll of Honour: Unknown
Remembered: Panel 125, Commemorative Area, Australian War Memorial, Canberra ACT
On 21 September 1944, Spitfire BS530 was flying with the Squadron Leader Commanding Officer of No. 238 Squadron on a strafing mission over Northern Italy attacking ground objectives. At approximately 1600 hours BS530 failed to pull out of a dive. The Commanding Officer, pulling out of his dive and when flying over the area, saw the remains of the crashed BS530 in which Warrant Officer Lee had been killed.
References:
Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour On-Line Records (RAAF Casualty Information compiled by Alan Storr (409804))
Commonwealth War Graves Commission On-Line Records
Department of Veterans’ Affairs On-Line WWII Nominal Roll
National Archives of Australia On-Line Record A705, 166/24/552