Name
Harold Alexander Boyd
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
07/09/1914
19
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Second Lieutenant
Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers
2nd Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
LA HAUTE-MAISON ISOLATED GRAVE
France
UK & Other Memorials
Ware Town Memorial
St Mary’s Church Memorial, Ware
Pre War
Born on 19 Jan 1895 in The Manor House, Ware, Hertfordshire only son of Dr. Alexander James and Constance Mary (Berkeley) Boyd. Educated at Rugby and Trinity College, Cambridge where he read medicine. He was unmarried.
Wartime Service
He joined the Inniskillings in Apr 1913 as a special reserve officer. When he was called up he spent a little time on coast defence in Lough Swilly, Ireland, but was sent to France on 31 Aug 1914. He was killed only a week later at Crecy during the Battle of the Marne. He and Private Cousins were hit by shrapnel and killed instantly. They were buried where they fell in a single grave which is still there.
Acknowledgments
Malcolm Lennox
