UNDAUNTED: THE COURAGE OF SIDNEY CARLIN

Author: Don Chester

Publisher: Private Publication

Year published: 2014

Pagination: 103pp, 14 b/w photos, 2 maps

Condition: New in card cover

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Sydney Carlin, a native of Hull, enlisted in the Cavalry in 1914. In 1915 he was awarded a DCM during the Second Battle of Ypres and was recommended for a Commission. In 1916 as a Royal Engineers Lieutenant, he received an MC at the Battle of Delville Wood, where he suffered a leg amputation. Despite this he was determined to return to the Front Line and applied to the Royal Flying Corps for pilot training. Being rejected, he designed his own wooden leg and paid for private flying lessons. He persuaded the authorities to send him to a Front Line Scout squadron in France and, in the summer of 1918 he won a DFC, subsequently crash landing and spending the last weeks of the War as a POW. Volunteering again in 1939, he became an air gunner and served in the Battle of Britain at the age of 50. He died in 1941 in an air raid.