Add Information to Record of a Person who served during the Second World War on The Wartime Memories Project Website
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Spr. Sydney Lea
Army 663 Artisan Works Company Royal Engineers
(d.17th Jun 1940)
My grandfather, Sydney Lea, also went down on the Lancastria on 17th June 1940. He died on his birthday. He was washed up in Ste Marie Sur Mer and is buried in the local cemetary there along with a few others who also lost their lives. The War Graves Commission helped me find him and arranged for his headstone to be changed to reflect this. I visit as often as I can but would like anyone who knew of him to please get in touch.