Son of Sterling Clelland Girardet and Lulu Estelle Newton.
Obituary - Ensign David Lloyd Girardet, U.S.N.R., aged 24, a Grumman Hellcat pilot, was killed at sea off the Atlantic coast on April 10, the Navy department reports in a telegram received Saturday by his parents, Commander and Mrs. Sterling C. Girardet, Sr., U.S.N.R., of Hawkins Avenue, Lake Ronkonkoma. Although details of the accident were not given, it was learned that Ensign Giradet, who enlisted in the Navy more than six years ago, had been assigned to a new aircraft carrier and was with the ship on its shakedown run in the lower Atlantic area. The third oldest of four sons of the Girardet couple, Ensign Girardet was a nephew and close associate of Richmond B. Newton of Lake Ronkonkoma, who died suddenly a few weeks ago. He was a graduate of the Lake Ronkonkoma school and of Sayville High School. Before entering the service, he was employed for a time in Agnew and Taylor's store and also served as a lifeguard at Raynor's Beach, both at Lake Ronkonkoma. Early in his Navy service, he spent more than a year on board the destroyer Lang and then went to preparatory school in Norfolk, Va., where he studied about six months, at the end of which he received a Presidential appointment to the U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis. At the close of his first year at Annapolis, he failed in mathematics, and returned home. He then applied for Naval aviation training, was accepted late in 1942, and was assigned to Renssalaer Polytechnic institute at Troy, N.Y. He received additional training at Chapel Hill, N.C., Olathe, Kans., and Pensacola, Fla., where he received his commission early in 1944. He then was sent to Atlantic City, N.J., where he took advanced training before being assigned to a new flattop. His father, Commander Girardet, who is on duty in the New York area and was injured several months ago in a fall while on duty, was visiting the New York Navy Yard Hospital in Brooklyn for treatment when a copy of the telegram was received at his station and forwarded to him. Ensign Girardet's oldest brother, Sterling C. Girardet, Jr., who is attached to the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, D.C., had arrived unexpectedly at Lake Ronkonkoma for the weekend and was with his mother, when the telegram was received there. The telegram says that Ensign Girardet was killed at sea on April 10 and that his remains had not been recovered. Shortly before Ensign Girardet met his death, he wrote home that he was walking on deck one day, when someone shouted "Hello Lloyd!" He looked up to find one of his Lake Ronkonkoma neighbors, Sylvester Yam, a ship's fitter, who was also assigned to the carrier. About the same time, he found that Robert Baldwin, a former Farmingdale Boy Scout, who had camped on the Girardet property in past years, was also a member of the crew. Several weeks before, he had spoken by telephone from Hartford, Conn., with his mother, but the last time he was at Lake Ronkonkoma was during the Christmas holidays, when the family held a reunion at their place, the old Newton homestead. Unmarried, he leaves, besides his parents and brother, Sterling C. Girardet, Jr., two other brothers, Alan N. "Bunny" Girardet, a warrant gunner, who is at present stationed with a Navy unit on the West coast, and Philip E. Girardet, a first assistant engineer on a Standard Oil of New Jersey tanker.
(Note: There is a cenotaph in Manhattan, NY, that bears his name on The East Coast Memorial)
(The Patchogue advance., April 19, 1945, Page 1 & 2)
Obituary - Ensign David Lloyd Girardet, U.S.N.R., aged 24, a Grumman Hellcat pilot, was killed at sea off the Atlantic coast on April 10, the Navy department reports in a telegram received Saturday by his parents, Commander and Mrs. Sterling C. Girardet, Sr., U.S.N.R., of Hawkins Avenue, Lake Ronkonkoma. Although details of the accident were not given, it was learned that Ensign Giradet, who enlisted in the Navy more than six years ago, had been assigned to a new aircraft carrier and was with the ship on its shakedown run in the lower Atlantic area. The third oldest of four sons of the Girardet couple, Ensign Girardet was a nephew and close associate of Richmond B. Newton of Lake Ronkonkoma, who died suddenly a few weeks ago. He was a graduate of the Lake Ronkonkoma school and of Sayville High School. Before entering the service, he was employed for a time in Agnew and Taylor's store and also served as a lifeguard at Raynor's Beach, both at Lake Ronkonkoma. Early in his Navy service, he spent more than a year on board the destroyer Lang and then went to preparatory school in Norfolk, Va., where he studied about six months, at the end of which he received a Presidential appointment to the U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis. At the close of his first year at Annapolis, he failed in mathematics, and returned home. He then applied for Naval aviation training, was accepted late in 1942, and was assigned to Renssalaer Polytechnic institute at Troy, N.Y. He received additional training at Chapel Hill, N.C., Olathe, Kans., and Pensacola, Fla., where he received his commission early in 1944. He then was sent to Atlantic City, N.J., where he took advanced training before being assigned to a new flattop. His father, Commander Girardet, who is on duty in the New York area and was injured several months ago in a fall while on duty, was visiting the New York Navy Yard Hospital in Brooklyn for treatment when a copy of the telegram was received at his station and forwarded to him. Ensign Girardet's oldest brother, Sterling C. Girardet, Jr., who is attached to the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, D.C., had arrived unexpectedly at Lake Ronkonkoma for the weekend and was with his mother, when the telegram was received there. The telegram says that Ensign Girardet was killed at sea on April 10 and that his remains had not been recovered. Shortly before Ensign Girardet met his death, he wrote home that he was walking on deck one day, when someone shouted "Hello Lloyd!" He looked up to find one of his Lake Ronkonkoma neighbors, Sylvester Yam, a ship's fitter, who was also assigned to the carrier. About the same time, he found that Robert Baldwin, a former Farmingdale Boy Scout, who had camped on the Girardet property in past years, was also a member of the crew. Several weeks before, he had spoken by telephone from Hartford, Conn., with his mother, but the last time he was at Lake Ronkonkoma was during the Christmas holidays, when the family held a reunion at their place, the old Newton homestead. Unmarried, he leaves, besides his parents and brother, Sterling C. Girardet, Jr., two other brothers, Alan N. "Bunny" Girardet, a warrant gunner, who is at present stationed with a Navy unit on the West coast, and Philip E. Girardet, a first assistant engineer on a Standard Oil of New Jersey tanker.
(Note: There is a cenotaph in Manhattan, NY, that bears his name on The East Coast Memorial)
(The Patchogue advance., April 19, 1945, Page 1 & 2)
Son of Sterling Clelland Girardet and Lulu Estelle Newton.
Obituary - Ensign David Lloyd Girardet, U.S.N.R., aged 24, a Grumman Hellcat pilot, was killed at sea off the Atlantic coast on April 10, the Navy department reports in a telegram received Saturday by his parents, Commander and Mrs. Sterling C. Girardet, Sr., U.S.N.R., of Hawkins Avenue, Lake Ronkonkoma. Although details of the accident were not given, it was learned that Ensign Giradet, who enlisted in the Navy more than six years ago, had been assigned to a new aircraft carrier and was with the ship on its shakedown run in the lower Atlantic area. The third oldest of four sons of the Girardet couple, Ensign Girardet was a nephew and close associate of Richmond B. Newton of Lake Ronkonkoma, who died suddenly a few weeks ago. He was a graduate of the Lake Ronkonkoma school and of Sayville High School. Before entering the service, he was employed for a time in Agnew and Taylor's store and also served as a lifeguard at Raynor's Beach, both at Lake Ronkonkoma. Early in his Navy service, he spent more than a year on board the destroyer Lang and then went to preparatory school in Norfolk, Va., where he studied about six months, at the end of which he received a Presidential appointment to the U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis. At the close of his first year at Annapolis, he failed in mathematics, and returned home. He then applied for Naval aviation training, was accepted late in 1942, and was assigned to Renssalaer Polytechnic institute at Troy, N.Y. He received additional training at Chapel Hill, N.C., Olathe, Kans., and Pensacola, Fla., where he received his commission early in 1944. He then was sent to Atlantic City, N.J., where he took advanced training before being assigned to a new flattop. His father, Commander Girardet, who is on duty in the New York area and was injured several months ago in a fall while on duty, was visiting the New York Navy Yard Hospital in Brooklyn for treatment when a copy of the telegram was received at his station and forwarded to him. Ensign Girardet's oldest brother, Sterling C. Girardet, Jr., who is attached to the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, D.C., had arrived unexpectedly at Lake Ronkonkoma for the weekend and was with his mother, when the telegram was received there. The telegram says that Ensign Girardet was killed at sea on April 10 and that his remains had not been recovered. Shortly before Ensign Girardet met his death, he wrote home that he was walking on deck one day, when someone shouted "Hello Lloyd!" He looked up to find one of his Lake Ronkonkoma neighbors, Sylvester Yam, a ship's fitter, who was also assigned to the carrier. About the same time, he found that Robert Baldwin, a former Farmingdale Boy Scout, who had camped on the Girardet property in past years, was also a member of the crew. Several weeks before, he had spoken by telephone from Hartford, Conn., with his mother, but the last time he was at Lake Ronkonkoma was during the Christmas holidays, when the family held a reunion at their place, the old Newton homestead. Unmarried, he leaves, besides his parents and brother, Sterling C. Girardet, Jr., two other brothers, Alan N. "Bunny" Girardet, a warrant gunner, who is at present stationed with a Navy unit on the West coast, and Philip E. Girardet, a first assistant engineer on a Standard Oil of New Jersey tanker.
(Note: There is a cenotaph in Manhattan, NY, that bears his name on The East Coast Memorial)
(The Patchogue advance., April 19, 1945, Page 1 & 2)
Obituary - Ensign David Lloyd Girardet, U.S.N.R., aged 24, a Grumman Hellcat pilot, was killed at sea off the Atlantic coast on April 10, the Navy department reports in a telegram received Saturday by his parents, Commander and Mrs. Sterling C. Girardet, Sr., U.S.N.R., of Hawkins Avenue, Lake Ronkonkoma. Although details of the accident were not given, it was learned that Ensign Giradet, who enlisted in the Navy more than six years ago, had been assigned to a new aircraft carrier and was with the ship on its shakedown run in the lower Atlantic area. The third oldest of four sons of the Girardet couple, Ensign Girardet was a nephew and close associate of Richmond B. Newton of Lake Ronkonkoma, who died suddenly a few weeks ago. He was a graduate of the Lake Ronkonkoma school and of Sayville High School. Before entering the service, he was employed for a time in Agnew and Taylor's store and also served as a lifeguard at Raynor's Beach, both at Lake Ronkonkoma. Early in his Navy service, he spent more than a year on board the destroyer Lang and then went to preparatory school in Norfolk, Va., where he studied about six months, at the end of which he received a Presidential appointment to the U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis. At the close of his first year at Annapolis, he failed in mathematics, and returned home. He then applied for Naval aviation training, was accepted late in 1942, and was assigned to Renssalaer Polytechnic institute at Troy, N.Y. He received additional training at Chapel Hill, N.C., Olathe, Kans., and Pensacola, Fla., where he received his commission early in 1944. He then was sent to Atlantic City, N.J., where he took advanced training before being assigned to a new flattop. His father, Commander Girardet, who is on duty in the New York area and was injured several months ago in a fall while on duty, was visiting the New York Navy Yard Hospital in Brooklyn for treatment when a copy of the telegram was received at his station and forwarded to him. Ensign Girardet's oldest brother, Sterling C. Girardet, Jr., who is attached to the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, D.C., had arrived unexpectedly at Lake Ronkonkoma for the weekend and was with his mother, when the telegram was received there. The telegram says that Ensign Girardet was killed at sea on April 10 and that his remains had not been recovered. Shortly before Ensign Girardet met his death, he wrote home that he was walking on deck one day, when someone shouted "Hello Lloyd!" He looked up to find one of his Lake Ronkonkoma neighbors, Sylvester Yam, a ship's fitter, who was also assigned to the carrier. About the same time, he found that Robert Baldwin, a former Farmingdale Boy Scout, who had camped on the Girardet property in past years, was also a member of the crew. Several weeks before, he had spoken by telephone from Hartford, Conn., with his mother, but the last time he was at Lake Ronkonkoma was during the Christmas holidays, when the family held a reunion at their place, the old Newton homestead. Unmarried, he leaves, besides his parents and brother, Sterling C. Girardet, Jr., two other brothers, Alan N. "Bunny" Girardet, a warrant gunner, who is at present stationed with a Navy unit on the West coast, and Philip E. Girardet, a first assistant engineer on a Standard Oil of New Jersey tanker.
(Note: There is a cenotaph in Manhattan, NY, that bears his name on The East Coast Memorial)
(The Patchogue advance., April 19, 1945, Page 1 & 2)
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