Sidney Brazier
Appearance
Sidney Brazier | |
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Born | Rotherham, Yorkshire | 8 December 1919
Died | 12 May 2016 | (aged 96)
Allegiance | United Kingdom |
Service | British Army |
Years of service | 1946–1974 |
Rank | Captain |
Unit | Royal Army Ordnance Corps |
Battles / wars | Korean War Cyprus Emergency The Troubles |
Awards | George Medal Mentioned in Despatches |
Sidney Brazier, GM (8 December 1919 – 12 May 2016) was a British Army bomb disposal officer who won a George Medal for defusing sticky bombs when he was a conductor in the Royal Army Ordnance Corps in 1963.[1][2]
References
[edit]- ^ "Captain Sidney Brazier, bomb disposal officer", Daily Telegraph, 7 June 2016
- ^ "Captain Sidney Brazier", The Times, p. 52, 21 July 2016
Categories:
- 1919 births
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- Bomb disposal personnel
- British Army personnel of the Korean War
- British military personnel of the Cyprus Emergency
- British military personnel of The Troubles (Northern Ireland)
- People educated at Rotherham Grammar School
- People from Rotherham
- Royal Army Ordnance Corps officers
- Recipients of the George Medal
- Military personnel from South Yorkshire
- British Army personnel of World War II
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