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Harald Ivar Sylvester Bendixson, known as Sylvester, was born in London on 8 May 1902, the younger son of Evelyn (née Johnson) and Harald Bendixson, a merchant. He was educated at Rugby School from 1915 to 1920.
Sylvester Bendixson entered Worcester College on 8 October 1920. He was a successful member of the College Boat Club, rowing in both the Torpid and the Eight in 1921 and 1922. In 1922 the Worcester College Torpid went Head of the River. Bendixson left Oxford without taking a degree and became a stockbroker. He married Evelyn Palgrave in 1931.
In 1940, the firm of stockbrokers in which Sylvester Bendixson was a partner was dissolved by mutual consent, and he was commissioned as a probationary Pilot Officer in the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve. He was confirmed in his rank and promoted to Flying Officer on 27 December 1941.
Sylvester Bendixson was serving with Air Headquarters, Far East when he was captured by the Japanese on the 17 March 1942. Flight Lieutenant Sylvester Bendixson spent just under two years as a prisoner of war and died on 9 March 1944 of suppurative bronchitis at a camp at Medan on North Sumatra. He was 41 years old.
Sylvester Bendixson is buried at Jakarta War Cemetery and commemorated on the war memorials at Rugby School and Worcester College, Oxford.