Bernard Alan James Boyse (buried 1941)

Bernard Allan James Boyse was born in Worthing, Sussex on the 8th April 1918 to church organist Arthur Boyce F.R.C.O. and his wife Dorothy Vera Mellersh.

He had a sister, Ida  who married Herbert Hales in 1942 , and two brothers, Edward (Teddy) who served as a pilot and later as a distinguished doctor and researcher in Canada  and Benjamin who married Beryl Brace in 1952.

Bernard worked as a research tester of aero engines at Ricardo Thornycroft in Shoreham before enlisting in the 86th Squadron of the RAF. 

Tragically on 21st July, 1941,Bernard was a crew member on a flight that  departed RAF North Coates on a mine laying operation. It crashed in uknown circumstances in the North Sea of Schiermonnikoog Island, Friesland, Netherlands. Bernard is He is commemorated at the Runnymede Memorial in Surrey, United Kingdom.