The story
Name: D LYALL
Rank: Petty Officer Airman
Official number: FX 97088
Role: Pilot
Service/attached: RN
Squadron: 749 Squadron
Ship/station: H.M.S. Goshawk, Piarco, West Indies
Date of death: 1942-08-12
Aircraft: Walrus
Place of death: Gulf of Paria, Trinidad, British West Indies
Circumstances: M.P.K.
Buried/commemorated: LEE-ON-SOLENT MEMORIAL - Hampshire
Commemoration details: Bay 3, Panel 2
Family details: Son of James William and Mary Lyall of Leith, Edinburgh, Scotland
Rank: Petty Officer Airman
Official number: FX 97088
Role: Pilot
Service/attached: RN
Squadron: 749 Squadron
Ship/station: H.M.S. Goshawk, Piarco, West Indies
Date of death: 1942-08-12
Aircraft: Walrus
Place of death: Gulf of Paria, Trinidad, British West Indies
Circumstances: M.P.K.
Buried/commemorated: LEE-ON-SOLENT MEMORIAL - Hampshire
Commemoration details: Bay 3, Panel 2
Family details: Son of James William and Mary Lyall of Leith, Edinburgh, Scotland
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