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Auction: 18001 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 4

The Great War campaign pair awarded to Sergeant A. I. Boyack, an Observer in No. 49 Squadron who was killed in June 1918, when his combat-damaged D.H. 9 hit a tree on landing

British War and Victory Medals (99851 Sgt. A. I. Boyack, R.A.F.), extremely fine (2)



Alexander Ian Boyack, a native of Broughty Ferry, Scotland, was killed on 5 June 1918 when, following a combat, his damaged D.H. 9 of No. 49 Squadron hit a tree on landing. The following notice appeared in the Dundee edition of The Courier and Advertiser:

'Flight Sergeant David Smith, R.A.F., the son of Mr. William Smith, Jolly's Hotel, Broughty Ferry, writing to his parents, in a letter received yesterday, states that Sergeant Observer Alexander Ian Boyack, R.A.F., son of Mr. Alexander J. Boyle, Links Villa, King Street, Broughty Ferry, was killed on 5th instant in the course of an aerial flight. It appears that the machine in which the deceased was flying formed one of a squadron and being in the rear was attacked by three enemy machines and driven down, but the pilot succeeded in reaching the British lines. Sergeant Boyack joined up in October 1917 and had been in France one month. He was killed in his 19th year, and on enlistment was a clerk in the shipping office of David Alexander & Sons Ltd., King Street, Dundee. An elder brother is serving in the R.A.F.'

Boyack was buried in the Marissel French National Cemetery; his name is also commemorated on the Roll of Honour in the East United Free Church, Broughty Ferry.



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