Today | News | Books | Recipes Adventure | Science Fiction | Ghost stories | Poetry | Children | History Booknean Expeditionary Force. Landed from the River Clyde with the 29th Division, and died of wounds received in action following the landing at the Dardanelles on 25 April, 1915. He was _unm._ A brass plaque to the memory of this officer was erected in the south aisle of St. Peter's, Cowfold, Sussex. [Illustration: =Caryl Lermitte Boxall.=] =BOXALL, CHARLES BERT=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 3515), 210631, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in the action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914. =BOXWELL, FRANCIS JEFFARES TILSON=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 3598), 188877, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in the action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914. =BOYCE, JOHN HENRY=, Trooper, No. 1626, Buckinghamshire Yeomanry (Royal Bucks Hussars), only _s._ of Henry Boyce, of Woodford Green, Essex, and grandson of the late Henry Boyce, of the Leman School, Beccles, Suffolk; _b._.........., 1889; joined the Royal Bucks Hussars early in Oct. 1914; left England for Egypt just before Easter, 1915; went to the Dardanelles early in June, and was killed in a charge at Suvla Bay, 21 Aug. 1915; _unm._ [Illustration: =John Henry Boyce.=] =BOYD, DAVID=, A.B., 229233, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in the action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914. =BOYD, HAROLD ALEXANDER=, 2nd Lieut., 2nd Battn. Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, only _s._ of Dr. Alexander James Boyd, of The Manor House, Ware, co. Herts (who served for 13 years in the 1st (Herts) Vol. Battn. Bedfordshire Regt., and retired as Capt. in 1902), by his wife, Constance Mary, dau. of Brackenbury Comyns Berkeley, of Collett Hall, Ware, and grandson of the late Samuel Boyd, of Illerton, Killiney; _b._ at The Manor House, Ware, 19 Jan. 1895; educ. at the Preparatory School, Castle Park, Dalkey (co. Dublin), Rugby, and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he was studying medicine at the time of mobilisation and had passed his first M.B. examination at the end of his first year. He had joined the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers in April, 1913, as a Special Reserve officer, and was called up for service and at first put on Coast Defence duty at Lough Swilly, co. Donegal, being afterwards sent to France on 31 Aug. He was killed in action at Crecy, 7 Sept. 1914, during the Battle of the Marne; unm. Corpl. W. Poots wrote: "On the morning of Monday, 7 Sept., we were reinforced by a draft of a hundred men from the depôt in Ireland under Lieut. Boyd, and continued the advance all day. In the evening the Inniskillings had to find the outposts at a village to which we had come--on the right being an open road with a row of apple trees, and on the left a clear open plain. In the distance, about 1,000 or 1,200 yards, was a broad belt of woods and shrubs, from which came rifle and big gun fire. This took us by surprise. We lined out and retaliated, but their shelling was terrific, and we had no artillery with us. Our officers were trying to find the range and had no cover from the shells, thus exposing themselves, notably Mr. Boyd, who was standing by an apple tree by the right of the road. He was struck on the body by shrapnel and killed instantly; also Private Cousins, and 14 wounded. We continued all night in this position. In the morning the enemy had retired." 2nd Lieut. Boyd was a fine athlete, gaining his colours at Rugby in football, swimming, shooting and cross-country running; and he also won the Royal Humane Society's medal and Dr. Duke's cup for life-saving competition. At Cambridge he was a member of the First Trinity Boat Club, and in 1914 he won the swimming championship of his regt. at Aldershot. =BOYD, NIGEL JOHN LAWSON=, 2nd Lieut., 1st Battn. The Black Watch, yr. _s._ of William Boyd, of 26, Inverleith Place, Edinburgh, Writer to the Signet, Member of the King's Body Guard for Scotland (R.C.A.), by his wife, Laura, dau. of the late John Crerar, of Halifax, Nova Scotia, and grandson of the late Sir John Boyd, of Maxpoffle, co. Roxburgh, by his wife, Isabella, 2nd dau. of John Lawson, 14th Laird of Cairnmuir, co. Peebles; _b._ Edinburgh, 14 Sept. 1894; educ. Cargilfield School, Midlothian, Winchester College and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst. In passing into the latter he obtained a Prize Cadetship, and in passing out he was fourth on the list. He was gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the Black Watch, 25 Feb. 1914, and joined the 1st Battn. at Oudenarde Barracks early in March. After the declaration of war he left Aldershot with his regt. in the beginning of Aug. for France, and took part with it in the memorable retreat from Mons to the Marne. He was fatally wounded on the morning of 14 Sept., his birthday, during the early days of the great Battle of the Aisne. From a description which he subsequently gave when in hospital in Rouen to his father, it appears that in the early morning of 14 Sept., which was misty, the Black Watch were acting in concert with the Cameron Highlanders on the banks of the Aisne, and found themselves opposed to a strong force of the Germans, and came under a very severe fire. Lieut. Boyd with his platoon had been directed to take up a position, and it had been indicated to him that it must be held at all costs. The Germans continued to press on in overpowering numbers at that point, and they could see them within 100 yards. He stated that he had personally fired 10 rounds at them with a rifle, and afterwards emptied his revolver at them. The shrapnel, machine gun and rifle fire at the time was terrific. The enemy continued to press on from all sides. He was standing up and had drawn his Claymore, and in turning to the side to give a signal to those of his men who survived he was hit. The bullet struck the scabbard of his Claymore, glanced off it, entered the left hip and lodged in the bladder. After that he said the Germans rushed the position. Words are unnecessary, and no effort of the imagination required to show that this young officer and his small force of men had made a gallant stand against overpowering odds, and that they had acted in accordance with the best traditions of their grand old regt. When on the ground wounded he asked a German who was passing for assistance, but all that the man did was to threaten to shoot him. After that he stated that he pretended to be dead when other Germans passed. Some time after this a party of the Cameron Highlanders appear to have been in the vicinity, and he was observed by the late Capt. Napier Cameron of that regt. Capt. Cameron gallantly went under fire to his assistance, and carried him to the shelter of a lane some distance in the rear. Lieut. Boyd told his father that he owed his life at the time to Capt. Cameron, as the ground on which he had fallen was swept afterwards by a terrible cross fire, and if he had been left there he could not possibly have survived. He lay where Capt. Cameron had put him for 16 hours in the rain. A stretcher party of the Gloucestershire Regt. found him and brought him in. Afterwards he was for 36 hours in a cattle truck being taken to the |