Other Information
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.
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.) |
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.
Life, to be sure, Is nothing much to lose,
But young men think it is, And we were young.
[Here Dead We Lie, A.E. Housman]
When You Go Home,
Tell Them Of Us And Say,
For Your Tomorrow,
We gave our Today
[Kohima, attributed to John Maxwell Edmonds]
WE WILL REMEMBER THEM
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