Sidney Cullum
Memorial: Iron Acton - St James the Less Church
Regiment: Royal Navy
Medals: 1939–45 Star, War Medal 1939–1945
Rank and number: Leading Seaman D/JX 132196
Parents: Ernest Cullum
Home address: 19 Fore Street, Ashton Keynes
Pre-war occupation: Tanner
Date of birth: 06/10/1916
Date of death: 08/06/1940
Buried/Commemorated at: Died at sea and commemorated on Plymouth Naval Memorial (Panel 36, Column 3)
Age: 23
Further information:
Son of a police officer and the middle child of several siblings, Sidney died in one of the Royal Navy’s most devastating disasters of the Second World War. HMS Glorious, one of Britain's largest and fastest aircraft carriers, was sunk along with her escorting destroyers HMS Ardent and HMS Acasta during the evacuation of Allied forces from Norway. Survivors in life rafts were not picked up for 3 days by which time there were only 40 left alive and in all 1,519 souls lost their lives.
By kind permission, this information is based on the following source(s):
This information has been provided by Sarah Hands, Volunteer Researcher for the South Gloucestershire War Memorials Web Site.
By kind permission, this information is based on the following source(s):
https://www.cwgc.org/
https://www.ancestry.co.uk/
https://www.forces-war-records.co.uk/
http://www.glosgen.co.uk/warmem/ironacton.htm
https://www.historytoday.com/philip-weir/hms-glorious-history-controversy