{"id":4769,"date":"2020-10-16T21:26:00","date_gmt":"2020-10-16T20:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/?p=4769"},"modified":"2020-10-16T21:26:00","modified_gmt":"2020-10-16T20:26:00","slug":"john-darrell-boyd-elegy-on-an-deceased-airman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/john-darrell-boyd-elegy-on-an-deceased-airman\/","title":{"rendered":"John Darrell Boyd &#8211; Elegy on an Deceased Airman"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_4770\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4770\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.celtichosting.com\/index.php\/john-darrell-boyd-elegy-on-an-deceased-airman\/ss-almeda-star\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4770\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4770\" src=\"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.celtichosting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/SS-Almeda-Star.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"292\" srcset=\"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/SS-Almeda-Star.jpg 600w, https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/SS-Almeda-Star-300x146.jpg 300w, https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/SS-Almeda-Star-332x162.jpg 332w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4770\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">John Darrell Boyd (related to us through the Doppings family of Derrycassin) lost his life on the SS Almeda Star en routh to Trinidad on 17th of January 1941. The ship was sunk by U96 in a prolonged attack. If the name sounds familiar its because its the same boat that founded the basis for the film Das Boot in actions in the autumn of that year. Photo from Wikipedia.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>One of the few of your clan, you died&#8230;<br \/>\nWho fought in so many wars over the years &#8211;<br \/>\nYour young bride, the tears she must have cried,<br \/>\nTo see realised a spouses fears&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>What a shadow under which to be born,<br \/>\nThe story of your father, though little known!<br \/>\nIt must have made you proud, to take to the skies,<br \/>\nYour fathers son, to a man to have grown&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Your name, on a stone, a story hides,<br \/>\nOf one of Longford&#8217;s diasporas scattered sons<br \/>\nWho in British uniform fought and died<br \/>\nOne of the few of your folk to die at an enemies guns.<\/p>\n<p>You, your comrades lost to a man,<br \/>\nSmall comfort killed a warrior of the seas&#8230;<br \/>\nYour body lies in waters off Rockall<br \/>\nNeath the tossing waves stirred to fury by seastorms breeze.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Ref:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The SS Almeda Star, the boat John Darrell Boyd died on<br \/>\nhttps:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/SS_Almeda_Star<\/p>\n<p>The U96 &#8211; the boat that sank the SS Almeda Star<br \/>\nhttps:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/German_submarine_U-96_(1940)<\/p>\n<p>Captain of the U96, who killed John Darrell Boyd<br \/>\nhttps:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lothar-G%C3%BCnther_Buchheim<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the few of your clan, you died&#8230; Who fought in so many wars over the years &#8211; Your young bride, the tears she must have cried, To see realised a spouses fears&#8230; What a shadow under which to be born, The story of your father, though little known! &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[155,23,1904],"tags":[4327,3992,3994,4329,2780,4328,4330,660],"class_list":["post-4769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-death","category-north-longford","category-world-war-ii","tag-airman","tag-boyd","tag-boyds-of-letterkenny","tag-doppings","tag-elegy","tag-family-story","tag-longford-at-war","tag-longford-diaspora","column","twocol"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7EI4f-1eV","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3718,"url":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/gheluvelt\/","url_meta":{"origin":4769,"position":0},"title":"Gheluvelt","author":"Tom\u00e1s \u00d3 C\u00e1rthaigh","date":"13th May 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"One of the quirks behind Gheluvelt was not alone was our Donegal freind of Longford extraction in the field, but it was the battle that gave the war legs to a certain Adolf Hitler, an Austrian to have a global prominence. 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