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Son of Dr. H. O. Boyd (Maj. C.A.M.C.), and Elizabeth Boyd of Bobcaygeon, Ontario.
Brother of Second Lieutenant
Henry Ormsby Boyd, who died while serving with the South Lancashire Regiment.
Digitized service file.
Digital gallery of Lieutenant Mossom Richard Boyd
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Mossom Richard Boyd
Source: Library and Archives Canada. CIRCUMSTANCES OF DEATH REGISTERS FIRST WORLD WAR Surnames: Border to Boys. Mircoform Sequence 12; Volume Number 131829_B016721; Reference RG150, 1992-93/314, 156 Page 813 of 934.
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Mossom Richard Boyd
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Mossom Richard Boyd
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Mossom Richard Boyd
Photo from the National Memorial Album of Canadian Heroes c.1919. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me.
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Mossom Richard Boyd
Photo from the National Memorial Album of Canadian Heroes c.1919. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me.
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Mossom Richard Boyd
His name as it is inscribed on the Vimy Memorial. Over 11,000 fallen Canadians having no known place of burial in France, are honoured on this Memorial. May they never be forgotten. (J. Stephens)
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Mossom Richard Boyd
Notice that the full view of the Casualty Card for Lieutenant Mossom Richard Boyd reports that he is buried in Plot 5 Row A Grave 26 of the Aubingy Communal Cemetery Extension. That is an error, as that is the burial location of Lieutenant James William Boyd of the Canadian Divisional Cyclist Company, who died at the CCS on 4 February 1917.
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Mossom Richard Boyd
From the Toronto Telegram December 1916. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Mossom Richard Boyd
From the Toronto Telegram June 1917. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Mossom Richard Boyd
Remembering brothers lost … Brothers In Arms Memorial, Zonnebeke, BE … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens … May 2022
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Source: Library and Archives Canada. CIRCUMSTANCES OF DEATH REGISTERS FIRST WORLD WAR Surnames: Border to Boys. Mircoform Sequence 12; Volume Number 131829_B016721; Reference RG150, 1992-93/314, 156 Page 813 of 934.
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Photo from the National Memorial Album of Canadian Heroes c.1919. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me.
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Photo from the National Memorial Album of Canadian Heroes c.1919. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me.
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His name as it is inscribed on the Vimy Memorial. Over 11,000 fallen Canadians having no known place of burial in France, are honoured on this Memorial. May they never be forgotten. (J. Stephens)
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Notice that the full view of the Casualty Card for Lieutenant Mossom Richard Boyd reports that he is buried in Plot 5 Row A Grave 26 of the Aubingy Communal Cemetery Extension. That is an error, as that is the burial location of Lieutenant James William Boyd of the Canadian Divisional Cyclist Company, who died at the CCS on 4 February 1917.
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From the Toronto Telegram December 1916. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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From the Toronto Telegram June 1917. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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Remembering brothers lost … Brothers In Arms Memorial, Zonnebeke, BE … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens … May 2022
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Page 57 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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VIMY MEMORIAL Pas de Calais, France
Canada's most impressive tribute overseas to those Canadians who fought and gave their lives in the First World War is the majestic and inspiring Vimy Memorial, which overlooks the Douai Plain from the highest point of Vimy Ridge, about eight kilometres northeast of Arras on the N17 towards Lens. The Memorial is signposted from this road to the left, just before you enter the village of Vimy from the south. The memorial itself is someway inside the memorial park, but again it is well signposted. At the base of the memorial, these words appear in French and in English:
Inscribed on the ramparts of the Vimy Memorial are the names of over 11,000 Canadian soldiers who were posted as 'missing, presumed dead' in France.
A plaque at the entrance to the memorial states that the land for the battlefield park, 91.18 hectares in extent, was 'the free gift in perpetuity of the French nation to the people of Canada'. Construction of the massive work began in 1925, and 11 years later, on July 26, 1936, the monument was unveiled by King Edward VIII.
The park surrounding the Vimy Memorial was created by horticultural experts. Canadian trees and shrubs were planted in great masses to resemble the woods and forests of Canada. Wooded parklands surround the grassy slopes of the approaches around the Vimy Memorial. Trenches and tunnels have been restored and preserved and the visitor can picture the magnitude of the task that faced the Canadian Corps on that distant dawn when history was made.
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