PERSONALIA
 
Name:  Horne, Sydney
Date of birth: January 12th, 1924 (Birmingham/Warwickshire, Great Britain)
Date of death:  September 22nd, 2003 (Rugeley,/Staffordshire, Great Britain)
Nationality:  British
BIOGRAPHY: 
Service number: 1434581/154549 (AUS-401512).
Navigator Sydney Horne (Pop-up photo right) flew among others with Keith Simes (Pop-foto left) in a DeHavilland Mosquito with No. 464 (RAAF) Squadron at Thorney Island (1944/1945). Left service on 10th November 1946.

Promotions:
?: Leading Aircraftman;
26th November 1943: Pilot Officer on probation (emergency);
26th May 1944: Pilot Officer;
26th May 1944: Flying Officer;
26th November 1945: Flight Lieutenant.

Career:
19th May 1941 - 25th November 1943: Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserves;
26th November 1943: commissioned, RAFVR (General Duties Branch);
December 1943 - 23rd June 1944: No. 36 Operational Training Unit RAF (Greenwood);
24th June 1944 - 31st July 1944: No.13 Operational Training Unit RAF (Bicester);
1st August 1944 - 13th August 1944: No. 2 Geographically Separated Unit RAF (Swanton Morley);
14th August 1944 - 28th April 1945: No. 464 (RAAF) Squadron;
29th April 1945: No. 13 Operational Training Unit (Finmere, Buckinghamshire).
     
MENTIONED IN DESPATCHES
Rank: Flying Officer
Awarded on: January 1st, 1946
 
     
MENTIONED IN DESPATCHES
Rank: Flight Lieutenant
Unit: No. 464 (R.A.A.F.) Squadron
Awarded on: June 25th, 1946
 
     
1939-1945 STAR
 
     
FRANCE AND GERMANY STAR
 
     
WAR MEDAL 1939-1945
 
 
 
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Picture source:   - Graeme Horne
Information source(s):   - Second Supplement to The London Gazette of 10th March 1944, Issue 36422, dated 14th March 1944
- Third Supplement to The London Gazette of 27th June 1944, Issue 36588, dated30th June 1944
- Supplement to The London Gazette of 28th December 1945, Issue 37407, dated 1st January 1946
- Third Supplement to The London Gazette of 21st June 1946, Issue 37625, dated 25th June 1946
- World War II Unit histories
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