He was a member of the 62nd Scout Troop attached to Gosforth Grammar School.

W/O Boydell was serving with 76 Squadron. He was a crew member of Halifax III NR121 MP-E which took off from Holme-on-Spalding-Moor on a mission to Worms. The aircraft crashed 10 kilometres from the centre of Worms, killing all the crew.
Royal Air Force Bomber Command Losses of the Second World War: 1945; W.R. Chorley; 1998; Midland Counties Publications; ISBN 0 904597 92 X

Gary Clark has submitted the following:

I have the crew picture of the Halifax Bomber NR-121MPE. The two RAF VR Crew are on the far right. I’m not too sure which one is Eric Boydell. I think he’s probably the chap standing far right as he looks a little older than Joseph Faulkner. Eric was 24 and Joseph aged 20.

My grandfather was William Brown Mallen, Navigator. A fact that I have only known for the last couple of months.

The names given under the photo are:
Rear l-r:
Wilfred Phillips, bomb aimer; William Brown Mallen (Navigator; John Pennington, Gunner; ????
Sitting l-r
James Joseph McNeil, Flight Sgt. air gunner; Harold Lester Ball (Pilot); ????

Acknowledgments also to Tony Hibberd

Scout Roll of Honour 1939-45
The CWGC entry for Warrant Officer Boydell