154086 Pilot Officer [Navigator] Douglas Robert Doyle.
The Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve.
28 Operational Training Unit
Based at RAF Wymeswold, near Loughborough, Leicestershire.
His death was registered in Basford District, Nottinghamshire, England, in the quarter ended June 1944.
Educated at
Wesley College, Dublin,
Trinity College Dublin, which he entered on 27 April 1937.
B.A., B.Comm., 1941.
Death Notice, published in The Irish Times, Thursday 20th April 1944.
DOYLE - April 19, 1944 (as a result of accident), Douglas Robert (Duggie), dearly loved third son of Olive and the late Edwin Doyle.
Douglas was recorded as the pilot/navigator of a Wellington Mark X bomber, MF 200, which crashed while on a training exercise for night flying.
A memorial plaque has been erected in the village of Normanton-on-Soar, near where the plane crashed.
Normanton Plaque
The crew of the Wellington Mark X Bomber MF200 were
Donald Hugh King, 24, Pilot Officer
Douglas Robert Doyle, 24, Pilot/Navigator
Sergt. Desmond Fretwell, 19, Wireless Op/Air Gunner
Sergt. Lawrence Emmerson Garrod, 22, Air Gunner
154086 Pilot Officer [Navigator] Douglas Robert Doyle.
The Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve.
28 Operational Training Unit
Based at RAF Wymeswold, near Loughborough, Leicestershire.
His death was registered in Basford District, Nottinghamshire, England, in the quarter ended June 1944.
Educated at
Wesley College, Dublin,
Trinity College Dublin, which he entered on 27 April 1937.
B.A., B.Comm., 1941.
Death Notice, published in The Irish Times, Thursday 20th April 1944.
DOYLE - April 19, 1944 (as a result of accident), Douglas Robert (Duggie), dearly loved third son of Olive and the late Edwin Doyle.
Douglas was recorded as the pilot/navigator of a Wellington Mark X bomber, MF 200, which crashed while on a training exercise for night flying.
A memorial plaque has been erected in the village of Normanton-on-Soar, near where the plane crashed.
Normanton Plaque
The crew of the Wellington Mark X Bomber MF200 were
Donald Hugh King, 24, Pilot Officer
Douglas Robert Doyle, 24, Pilot/Navigator
Sergt. Desmond Fretwell, 19, Wireless Op/Air Gunner
Sergt. Lawrence Emmerson Garrod, 22, Air Gunner
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