BOYES Gordon Ediss

  • First Name(s):
    Gordon 
    Ediss 
  • Surname:
    BOYES
  • Service Number:
    408244
  • Rank:

    Flight Sergeant

  • Conflict:
    WW2
  • Service:
    Air Force
  • Air Force:
    Royal Australian Air Force
  • Former Units:
    None
  • Date of Death:
    21st April 1943
  • Age At Death:
    20
  • Place of Death:
    Unknown
  • Place of Burial:
    Pershore Cemetery, Worcestershire, England, Plot Q. Grave 378.
  • Place of Birth:
    Unknown
  • Home Town:
    Unknown
  • Casualty's Relatives:

    Son of Ediss and Madge Boyes; husband of Marjorie Joan Boyes, of Hobart, Tasmania, Australia

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Flight Sergeant Gordon BOYES served and died in WW2.

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Pershore Cemetery

Further Information About BOYES Gordon Ediss

Gordon Ediss Boyes was one of three children of Ediss Boyes. He had a sister, Judith Boyes and a brother, Alfred Boyes. Their father was wounded in the Great War.

Gordon Boyes was on a training flight on a Wellington Bomber Mark I, No DV936 piloted by Flight Sergeant D.E. Hamlyn when it crashed at Wychbold, Worcestershire killing all crew members.

Information taken from the crash report courtesy of the Royal Air Force Museum Research Department.

Sgt G. E. Boyes, RAAF
Advice has been received of the death of Sgt Gordon Ediss Boyes RAAF, as the result of an aircraft accident at Wychbold. Worcestershire, England, on April 21. He was the second son of Capt E. Boyes, AIF and Mrs Boyes, Hobart.
Sgt Boyes took a keen interest in sport and was a well-known yachtsman. He was a member of the crew of Kitti wake when she won the Stonehaven Cup in 1938, and represented Tasmania as helmsman of that cadet dinghy in the same contest in 1939. He won both the Royal Yacht Club of Tasmania and Derwent Sailing Squadron pennants.

Sgt Boyes was educated at the Hutchirs School, Hobart, and before his enlistment was on the staff of the Agricultural Dept. at Hobart. He enlisted in the RAAF in 1941, and carried out his training under the Empire Air Scheme in Australia He qualified as an air gunner, and left for overseas in 1942. He had been in England for some months.

His wife Joan, daughter of Mr and Mrs W. J. Forsythe, Sandy Bay Hobart, and baby daughter, survive Sgt Boyes. His brother, Cpl. E. A. Boyes, is a member of the AIF and he has a sister, Judith.

The funeral of Sgt Boyes took place at Pershore cemetery, Worcester, on Monday.
The Mercury 28 Apr 1943 – includes a photograph of Gordon Boyes

Sergeant Gordon Ediss Boyes serving with the Royal Australian Air Force was buried in consecrated ground in Pershore Cemetery on 26th April 1943. The ceremony was performed by the Reverend F.P. Maydew, R.A.F. Station, Pershore.

Register of Burials in War Graves in Pershore Cemetery courtesy of Pershore Town Council.

A photograph of the funeral of Gordon Boyes at Pershore Cemetery can be found via the following link:
https://www.awm.gov.au/people/P10308478/#Photograph

Link still valid 9th March 2025

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Credits: Family information and photograph of Gordon Boyes courtesy of Gordon's nephew, David Boyes.