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Military service
Age:
26
Rank:
Lieutenant
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Sherbrooke Fusiliers Regiment, R.C.A.C.
Division:
27th Armd. Regt.
Birth:
December 14, 1917
Winchester, Ontario
Enlistment:
November 15, 1941
Kingston, Ontario
Death:
July 8, 1944
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
XI. E. 2.
Additional information
Son of Malcolm and Jean Boyd, of Winchester, Ontario. Husband of Mary Patricia Boyd, of Hamilton, Ontario.
Brother of Trooper Kenneth Archibald Boyd, who died while serving with the 17th Duke of York's Royal Canadian Hussars.
Digital gallery of Lieutenant Nairn Stewart Boyd
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Newspaper Clipping
Source: Hamilton Spectator July 15, 1944 -
Grave Marker
The grave marker (2010) at the Beny-sur-Mer Canadian War Cemetery located outside Reviers, about 4 kilometres from Juno Beach in Normandy, France. May he rest in peace. (K. Falconer & J. Stephens) -
Beny-Sur-Mer Canadian War Cemetery
The Beny-sur-Mer Canadian War Cemetery, located at Reviers, about 4 kilometres from Juno Beach in Normandy, France. (J. Stephens) -
Biography
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Photo of NAIRN STEWART BOYD
Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper Clipping
Remembered on the pages of the Ottawa Journal. Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper Clipping
Remembered on the pages of the Ottawa Journal. Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Memorial
Remembering brothers lost … Brothers In Arms Memorial, Zonnebeke, BE … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens … May 2022 -
Newspaper clipping
From the Hamilton Spectator c. 1943. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Hamilton Spectator c.1944. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Hamilton Spectator c.1944. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Nairn Stewart Boyd
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Nairn Stewart Boyd
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Nairn Stewart Boyd
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Nairn Stewart Boyd
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Nairn Stewart Boyd
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Nairn Stewart Boyd
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Nairn Stewart Boyd
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Nairn Stewart Boyd
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Nairn Stewart Boyd
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 256 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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