Air Vice Marshal OWEN TUDOR BOYD C B, O B E, M C, A F C Royal Air Force who died age 54 on 05 August 1944 Son of Alfred Black Pringle Boyd and Mary Tudor Boyd; husband of Ina Marjorie Boyd (nee Tudor), of Chelsea, London. Also served in the 1914-18 War. Remembered with honour CITY OF WESTMINSTER (PADDINGTON) CEMETERY, MILL HILL Owen Tudor Boyd - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia O T Boyd_P
On his way to Egypt, Boyd was to stop in Malta. However, the aircraft in which he and his staff were passengers was forced down over enemy-controlled Sicily by a group of Italian fighters. After destroying his confidential papers by setting his own aircraft on fire, Boyd became a prisoner of war (POW). He spent much of the war in the Castle Vincigliata (Castello di Vincigliata) camp near Florence, Italy.[2] 20-21 November 1940 214 Middle East Flight Wellington IC T2873 Op. Delivery Flight The aircraft took off from Stradishall for Luqa but force landed at Comiso Sicily. The crew of five and two passengers were taken pow 'RAF Bomber Losses In The Middle East And Mediterranean' - David Gunby/Pelham Temple
See Post 4 in the linked thread for a fuller account of his capture: The Scharff Technique: “could get a confession of infidelity from a Nun.”
