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Citation(s);
Military service
Service number:
29420
Rank:
Company Quarter Master Sergeant
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Manitoba Regiment)
Division:
16th Bn.
Birth:
Sanguhar, Dumphries, Scotland
Enlistment:
September 22, 1914
Valcartier, Québec
Death:
October 8, 1916
Burial/memorial information
Additional information
Son of the late Mr. and Mrs. William Boyes, of Murray Place, Dumfries, Scotland.
Digitized service file.
Additional citations
Military Medal, London Gazette # 29608 dated 3 June 1916.
Digital gallery of Company Quarter Master Sergeant James Galloway Boyes
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Newspaper Clipping
Death Notice of CQMS Boyes. From the 'Carlisle Journal', Tuesday, October 31st, 1916, p3. -
Inscription
His name as it is inscribed on the Vimy Memorial. Over 11,000 fallen Canadians having no known place of burial in France, are honoured on this Memorial. May they never be forgotten. (J. Stephens) -
Newspaper clipping
From the Hamilton Spectator 1916. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Hamilton Spectator 1916. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Company Quarter Master Sergeant James Galloway Boyes
Digital gallery of
Company Quarter Master Sergeant James Galloway Boyes
Digital gallery of
Company Quarter Master Sergeant James Galloway Boyes
Digital gallery of
Company Quarter Master Sergeant James Galloway Boyes
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 57 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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