Neville George Doy

A Sub-Lieutenant (A) with H.M.S. Implacable, Neville died on 24th of July 1945 at the age of 20.

Neville was born at Lowestoft in 1925, a son of Harry Reginald and Hetty Mary Faith Doy. In 1939 they lived at 76 Florence Road, Lowestoft. Probate records give Neville's address when he died (and presumably this is where his parents lived) as 150 Waveney Drive, Lowestoft. 

Neville was commissioned Acting Temporary Sub-Lieutenant in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve on 5 August 1944, and as Temporary Sub-Lieutenant (Observer) in the Fleet Air Arm on 5 February 1945. 

Neville served with 1771 Squadron, Fleet Air Arm, on board H.M.S. Implacable. He was the Observer on a Fairey Firefly aircraft that was on a bombing mission to mainland Japan. The aircraft failed to pull out of a dive and crashed killing Neville.