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Military service
Age:
20
Rank:
Lieutenant
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Army Service Corps
Division:
attd. King's Own Yorkshire Light Inf.
Enlistment:
Bobcaygeon, Ontario
Death:
February 17, 1918
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Grave 52. Lot 28. 15. N.
Additional information
Son of William Thornton Cust and Meta Boyd, of Bobcaygeon, Ontario.
Digital gallery of Lieutenant Herbert Cust Boyd
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Memorial Stained Glass
On their 50th anniversary the class of August 1915 at the Royal Military College of Canada have placed this memorial stained glass window to honour their fallen classmates. 1148 2nd Lieut Herbert Cust Boyd (RMC 1915) was the son of William Thornton Cust and Meta Boyd, of Bobcaygeon, Ontario. He served with the Royal Army Service Corps Division: attd. King's Own Yorkshire Light Inf. He died of appendicitis on Feb 17, 1918. He was buried at Peterborough (Little Lake) Cemetery, Ontario, Canada. -
Memorial
Pro Deo Et Patria Erected by the Royal Military College Club of Canada Anno Domini 1923. Ex-cadets are named on the Memorial Arch at the Royal Military College of Canada. 1148 2nd Lieut Herbert Cust Boyd (RMC 1915) was the son of William Thornton Cust and Meta Boyd, of Bobcaygeon, Ontario. He served with the Royal Army Service Corps Division: attd. King's Own Yorkshire Light Inf. He died Feb 17, 1918. He was buried at Peterborough (Little Lake) Cemetery, Ontario,Canada -
Memorial Doll
Ex-cadets are named on the Memorial Arch at the Royal Military College of Canada in Kingston, Ontario and in memorial stained glass windows to fallen comrades. -
Memorial Arch
Royal Military College, Kingston, Ontario -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram February 1918. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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Lieutenant Herbert Cust Boyd
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Herbert Cust Boyd
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Herbert Cust Boyd
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Herbert Cust Boyd
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Herbert Cust Boyd
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 584 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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PETERBOROUGH (LITTLE LAKE) CEMETERY Ontario, Canada
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