Sidney Binderman

Surgeon Lieutenant Sidney Lewis Binderman was an American officer of the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve who died during the Second World War.
He was born on 2 July 1915,British Medical Journal, p. 455, 4 April 1942, europepmc.org. Retrieved 22 August 2013. in New York, the son of Russian-born parents Dr. Nahum and Bessie Binderman.United States Census, 1930, familysearch.org. A graduate of Cambridge, with an MB, B.Chir, Bindermann was casualty officer at Addenbrooke's Hospital before he entered the RNVR.
Binderman died on 15 March 1942, when the V-class destroyer HMS Vortigern was torpedoed by the German E-boat S104 off Cromer, with the loss of 104 crew. There were 14 survivors from the destroyer, which had been escorting a coastal convoy.HMS Vortigern, naval-history.net. Retrieved 22 August 2013. Binderman had been assigned to Vortigern only a number of days prior to the vessel's loss.
He has no known grave and is commemorated by the Plymouth Naval Memorial.
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==References==
*Binderman, Sidney Lewis, cwgc.org. Retrieved 22 August 2013.
Category:1915 births
Category:1942 deaths
Category:American military personnel
Category:Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve
Category:American people of Jewish descent
Category:Burial Unknown
Category:Plymouth Naval Memorial
Category:Surgeon Lieutenants