Name:

Sidney G Wells
Rank: Leading Seaman
Service Number: P/JX137695
Regiment/Service: Royal Navy
Born: Sidney George Wells
Died: 8 July 1944. Aged 28
Theatre of Death HMS Pylades

Buried/Remembered Portamouth Naval Memorial. England
Memorial Elie War Memorial
Family Son of Henry and Elizabeth Wells
Husband of Patricia Wells of Washington, Co. Durham

Newspaper: East Fife Observer 14 June 1945

Additional:

H.M.S. Pylades. Minesweeper. Was hit by 2 German 'Neger' Human Torpedoes 8th July 1944. Off Normandy.
Abandon ship, ship sunk. 11 men lost.


Family at 14 Woodside Crescent, Elie. 1945