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Philip Bentinck Boyd

In memory of:

Second Lieutenant Philip Bentinck Boyd

April 13, 1917

Military Service


Force:

Air Force

Unit:

Royal Flying Corps

Division:

59th Squadron

Additional Information


Son of John Gamble Boyd, of 35 Elgin Avenue, Toronto, Ontario; husband of Dorothea S. K. Richardson (formerly Boyd). He had also served with the Gordon Highlanders.

Commemorated on Page 575 of the First World War Book of Remembrance. Request a copy of this page. Download high resolution copy of this page.

Burial Information


Cemetery:

ARRAS FLYING SERVICES MEMORIAL
Pas de Calais, France

Grave Reference:

N/A

Location:

The Arras Flying Services Memorial is in the Faubourg-d'Amiens Cemetery, which is in the Boulevard du General de Gaulle in the western part of the town of Arras, near the Citadel, approximately 2 kilometres due west of the railway station.

Information courtesy of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

Digital Collection

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  • Photo of PHILIP BENTINCK BOYD– In memory of the members of the 15th, 92nd and 134th Battalions (48th Highlanders) who went to war and did not return. Remembered by the 48th Highlanders Museum 73 Simcoe St. Toronto, Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me.
  • Photo of Phillip Bentinck Boyd– Originally 27012 Private in the 15th Battalion. Commissioned as a Lieutenant in the Gordon Highlanders and transferred to the RFC where he was KIA.
Submitted by the 15th Battalion CEF Memorial Project.
Dileas Gu Brath
  • Newspaper clipping– From the Toronto Telegram October 1917. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
  • Memorial Tablet– Second Lieutenant Philip Bentinck Boyd is remembered on this brass Memorial Tablet.  It was unveiled on May 1st, 1921 in memory of Upper Canada College students who died on active service during the First World War.  Upper Canada College is located in Toronto, Ontario.
  • Photo of Philip Bentinck Boyd– From "The War Book of Upper Canada College", edited by Archibald Hope Young, Toronto, 1923.  This book is a Roll of Honour including former students who served during the First World War.
  • Wedding Announcment– Second Lieutenant Boyd's wedding announcement was published in the Toronto Star on November 18th, 1916.
  • Newspaper Clipping
  • Newspaper Clipping 2
  • Press Clipping
  • St Thomas (Anglican) Church– St. Thomas (Anglican) Church, Huron St., Toronto, Ontario.   The octagonal 
Baptistry (1917) houses a central baptismal font, and also serves as a World 
War One memorial for the war dead of this parish. The room includes stained 
glass windows by the Bromsgrove Guild. These show images of medieval 
knights, St. Michael the Archangel and St. George, and a wounded soldier in 
a circa 1914-1918 military uniform standing among red poppies.  Individually 
inscribed wooden war memorial panels line the walls.  Each panel includes 
the name of a war casualty in gilt lettering with rank, unit and date of 
death.
  • War Memorial Window– One of the sets of War Memorial stained glass windows in the St. Thomas 
Church Baptistry.
  • Memorial– A detail of the memorial panel dedicated to 2nd Lt. Philip Bentinck Boyd.  Located in the St. Thomas Church Baptistry, Toronto, Ontario.
  • Newspaper Clipping– Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me
  • Newspaper Clipping– Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me

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