Sidney George Bond

An Engineman with H.M. Drifter Uberty. Sidney died on 7th of May 1941 at the age of 33. 

Sidney was born at Covehithe on 9 July 1907, a son of Alfred Charles and Charlotte Bond. In 1911 his family lived at Model Cottage, Henstead. By 1939 they were living at 11 Poplar Road, Carlton Colville, and Sidney worked as a stoker - herring fisherman. 

Sidney was serving on the Uberty when the drifter was bombed by German aircraft and sunk just off Lowestoft Harbour and all thirteen of the crew were lost. 

NOTE: Several sources state that the Uberty was sunk on 8 May 1941, but Commonwealth War Graves states that twelve of the thirteen crew, including William, died on 7 May 1941.