Roll of Honour 2023

P AGE 280

W ORLD W AR II

S T . E DWARD ’ S S CHOOL , O XFORD R OLL OF H ONOUR

Name JOHN SIDNEYWYNNE (Signalman)

Lef SES 1936

Roll Number 2608 Died 21:12:1941

Set / House E

Arrive SES 1930

Where LOST AT SEA, MID ATLANTIC

Age 24

Serving with R.N.V.R.

Buried No Known Grave Remembered Plymouth Naval Memorial, The St. Edward’s School WW2 Memorial

Born Aylesbury 1917, the son of a clergyman. He was a House Prefect, a Lance Corporal in the OTC and in the History VIth. He went up to St. Edmund Hall, Oxford 1936-8. He joined the R.N.V.R. in 1939 and was a Signalman by 1941, serving on H.M.S. “Audacity”, an Escort Carrier. when it was torpedoed by a German U-Boat in mid Atlantic late in 1941. Seventy-three of the crew (including Wynne) were lost and a ‘handful’ of survivors picked up by other British ships in the same convoy.