The story
Name: J D BOYD
Rank: Acting Leading Airman
Official number: FX 80588
Role: Observer under training
Service/attached: RN
Squadron: -
Ship/station: H.M.S. Goshawk (Lost in S.S. Almeda Star)
Date of death: 1941-01-17
Aircraft: - -
Place of death: At sea
Circumstances: M.P.K.
Buried/commemorated: LEE-ON-SOLENT MEMORIAL - Hampshire
Commemoration details: Bay 2, Panel 1
Family details: Son of Col. J D Boyd and Mrs E H Boyd; husband of Aileen Beckett Boyd. BA(Cantab) Chancellor's Medal, Double First -Classical Tripos, Browne Gold Medal, Montague Butler Prize, Browne Scholarship, Craven Scholarship, Henry Lund Fellowship for Yale
Rank: Acting Leading Airman
Official number: FX 80588
Role: Observer under training
Service/attached: RN
Squadron: -
Ship/station: H.M.S. Goshawk (Lost in S.S. Almeda Star)
Date of death: 1941-01-17
Aircraft: - -
Place of death: At sea
Circumstances: M.P.K.
Buried/commemorated: LEE-ON-SOLENT MEMORIAL - Hampshire
Commemoration details: Bay 2, Panel 1
Family details: Son of Col. J D Boyd and Mrs E H Boyd; husband of Aileen Beckett Boyd. BA(Cantab) Chancellor's Medal, Double First -Classical Tripos, Browne Gold Medal, Montague Butler Prize, Browne Scholarship, Craven Scholarship, Henry Lund Fellowship for Yale
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