Duff, Ronald Walter James

Rank

Leading Airman, Royal Navy, HMS Daedalus
Service Number

FX91971
Born

about 1924
Parents

Ronald Thomas Hilliard Duff and Margery Gordon Duff, of Craig Dhu, North Queensferry
Date of death

1 March 1943 (Aged 19)
Grave

Grave 112, Dunfermline, Douglas Bank
Other Memorials

Scottish National War Memorial (Edinburgh Castle.)


Other Information

Duff grave
Grave of Ronald Duff

He seems to have been killed in a road accident at Meriden, Warwickshire.

HMS Daedalus was RN Air Station, Lee-on-Solent and used as the main training base for the Fleet Air Arm.


Sources

Commonwealth War Graves Commission
Scottish National War Memorial (Edinburgh Castle.)
www.naval-history.net
Ancestry.com


Here dead we lie, Because we did not choose
To live and shame the land, From which we sprung.

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But young men think it is, And we were young.

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For Your Tomorrow,
We gave our Today

[Kohima, attributed to John Maxwell Edmonds]
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