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Military service
Service number:
74032
Age:
27
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Saskatchewan Regiment)
Division:
28th Bn.
Birth:
January 29, 1889
Killarney
Enlistment:
October 26, 1915
Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
Death:
June 6, 1916
Hooge, Belgium
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 18 - 26 - 28
Additional information
Son of Allen and Maria Boyd, of Killarney, County Kerry, Ireland.
Digital gallery of Private William Christopher Boyd
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Photo of William Christopher Boyd
Photo detail of Pte. W.C. Boyd from larger photo of No. 14 Platoon 'D' Company 28th Battalion, before leaving Canada in 1915. -
Memorial
Inscription on the Menin Gate … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
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Private William Christopher Boyd
Digital gallery of
Private William Christopher Boyd
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 57 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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