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• Name BOYD
• Initials R
• First name ROBERT
• Place of birth Bailieboro
• Country Cavan, Ireland
• Family Son of Thomas and Fanny Boyd, of Corglass, Bailieborough, Co. Cavan; four brothers, James, William, Joseph and Andrew (census 1901)
• Profession Dublin Metropole Police

Military service

• Place & date of enlistment Dublin
• Service number 21013
• Rank Serjeant
• Medals BWM-VM
• Regiment and unit 9th Bn. Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers attached to 109th Brigade
• Division - Brigade 109th Brigade
• Army - Corps - Division 36th Division
• National force B.E.F.

Death

• Type of wounds Killed in action, died of gunshot wounds on head, throat, arm and hand in n°3 Canadian CCS
• Date of death 17 August 1917
• Died at the age of 28
• Grave reference Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery XVII - AA - 19

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