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Personnel Entry

CWGC Headstone - Lt Victor Boyd - Corps of Royal Canadian Engineers.

Name Boyd Victor
Army number CDN ?
Rank Lieutenant.
Decorations None known beyond Service Awards
Date of birth 1914.
Age (At time of death) 29.
Unit Commissioned in the Corps of Royal Canadian Engineers. Served Normandy. Attached to the 49th Infantry Division. Posted to 294th Field Company, Royal Engineers. KILLED on ACTIVE SERVICE 5/12/1944.
Company/Battery
Platoon or other sub-unit Not yet known.
Task or role Details awaited.
Joined Brigade Not yet known.
Promotions None known.
Wounded Not so far as is known.
Prisoner of War Not so far as is known.
Died/Killed in action KILLED on ACTIVE SERVICE 5/12/1944. Interred initially in Nijmegen Canadian Teporary Burial Ground - map reference 690595 on Sheet 12, N.W. Reburied 9/8/1945 in Groesbeek Canadian War Cemetery - Grave reference III. B. 6. Headstone inscription reads "GOD TOOK HIM HOME, IT WAS HIS WILL, BUT IN OUR HEARTS HE LIVETH STILL".
Home address Son of George Calvert Boyd and Katherine Clark Boyd, husband of Jessie G. Boyd of Cornwall, Ontario, B.A.
Source table

Some information on this Page has been extracted from the Commemorative Booklet, prepared by Major Langley, covering the period from D-Day to VE Day in addition to that extracted from the War Diaries. There are issues around the possible duplication of names which remain to be clarified.

Thanks are due to the "Find a Grave" Website for the image of Lt Boyd's headstone.