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Personal data

• Name
• Initials
• Vorname
• Place of birth Bobcaygeon
• Land Ontario, Canada
• Family Son of Meta A. and W. T. C. Boyd, of Bobcaygeon, Ontario; single.
• Profession Accountant

Military service

• Place & date of enlistment 16 August 1915, Montreal
• Service number 475786
• Rank Private
• Regiment and unit Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry
• Attached or transferred from 3 - University Company
• Other data related to military career Originally given McGill Service Number 113 and retained Militia rank; posted to 11 Bn after arrival in England, 14 September 1915; hospitalized with bronchitis, November 1915; discharged to unit 27 January 1916; to France 15 March 1916; joined the P.P.C.L.I. in the field March 19, 1916.

Death

• Wounded 2 June, Sanctuary Wood
• Type of wounds Died of wounds to the abdomen and right arm in n°10 CCS
• Died at the age of 27
• Grave reference Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery VII - B - 21

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