Alexander Theodore Sodero Flight Sergeant R/124548 420 RCAF Squadron, Royal Canadian Air Force November 14, 1921 Sydney Mines, Nova Scotia August 14, 1941 Halifax, NS Sydney, NS 19 5 feet, 10 inches Medium Brown Brown Apprentice Machinist United Single Philip Sodero (Father) Sydney, NS June 1, 1943 22 Runnymede Memorial, UK Panel 185 Commemorated on Page 215 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance Displayed in the Memorial Chamber of the Peace Tower in Ottawa on May 8 Alexander Theodore Sodero was the son of Philip Sodero (1883-1949) and Alexandra Johanah (Morrison) Sodero (1890-1961), of Sydney, Nova Scotia. Alexander Sodero graduated from the Sydney Academy in 1940, completing his grade 12. He played football and baseball and was a member of the football Inter-scholastic Championship Team of 1938. Following graduation, he was employed as a truck driver with Coakes Pharmacy in Sydney (1940 -1941) and from May 1, 1941, was an apprentice machinist at the Steel and Coal Company, Sidney until his enlistment. Following his enlistment on August 14, 1941, with the RCAF, Alexander (Buddy) Sodero trained in Canada until August 1942. He received his Pilot’s Flying Badge on July 17, 1942. He went overseas, disembarking in the United Kingdom on September 1, 1942. He served with No 23 Operational Training Unit until February 20, 1943, and was then assigned to 420 Squadron. On June 1, 1943, Alexander Sodero was the pilot of Wellington Aircraft #HE 568 that departed RAF Portreath in Cornwall, England, in transit to Ras El Ma, North Africa. The aircraft was one of a group of 20 aircraft transferring air and ground crew to North Africa and one of two intercepted and shot down over the Bay of Biscay. The crew: P/O A.T. Sodero (Pilot) (Nova Scotia) F/O G.H. Hubbell (Navigator) (Ontario) P/O W.R. King (A/B) (Ontario) P/O R.S. Hollowell (Wireless Operator/Air Gunner) (Saskatchewan) WO H.L. Davis (Air Gunner) (Alberta) Cpl. J.F. MacKenzie (RAF England) LAC T.A. Brookes (RAF England) With no known graves the names of the crew are listed on the Runnymede Memorial, UK

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