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Military service
Service number:
F/10679
Age:
19
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Algonquin Regiment, R.C.I.C.
Birth:
May 28, 1925
Glendale, Nova Scotia
Enlistment:
June 29, 1944
Halifax, Nova Scotia
Death:
April 17, 1945
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
VI. F. 11.
Additional information
Son of Alexander H. and Catherine A. Boyd, of Glendale, Inverness Co., Nova Scotia. Brother of Lawrence Malcolm Boyd, who served with the Algonquin Regiment and died on March 9, 1945.
Digital gallery of Private Alexander Hugh Boyd
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Photo of Alexander Boyd
Photo taken before his departure overseas. -
Letter
Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Letter
Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Grave Marker
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Memorial
Remembering brothers lost … Brothers In Arms Memorial, Zonnebeke, BE … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens … May 2022
Digital gallery of
Private Alexander Hugh Boyd
Digital gallery of
Private Alexander Hugh Boyd
Digital gallery of
Private Alexander Hugh Boyd
Digital gallery of
Private Alexander Hugh Boyd
Digital gallery of
Private Alexander Hugh Boyd
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 497 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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