Name: Alexander Hugh Boyd Rank: Private Service Number: F/10679 Service: Algonquin Regiment, R.C.I.C. Date of Birth: May 28, 1925 Place of Birth: Glendale, Inverness Co., NS Date of Enlistment: June 29, 1944 Place of Enlistment: Halifax, Nova Scotia Address at Enlistment: Glendale, Inverness Co., NS Age at Enlistment: 19 Height: 5 feet, 8 inches Complexion: Fair Eye Colour: Blue Hair Colour: Brown Occupation: Farm Labourer Marital Status: Single Religion: Roman Catholic Next of Kin: Alexander Boyd (Father), Glendale, Inverness Co., NS Date of Death: April 17, 1945 Age: 19 Cemetery: Holten Canadian War Cemetery, Netherlands Grave: Section VI, Row F, Grave 11 Commemorated on Page 497 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance Displayed in the Memorial Chamber of the Peace Tower in Ottawa on October 23 Alexander Hugh Boyd was the son of Alexander Hugh Boyd (1887-1974) and Catherine Ann (MacEachern) Boyd (1887-1989) of Glendale, Inverness Co., NS, and the brother of Andrew John Boyd (1917-2009), Margaret Loretta (Boyd) Quirk (1919-1984), Hugh Francis Boyd (1920-2014), Jessie Boyd (b. 1923), and Alexander Hugh Boyd (1925-1945). His brother Hugh Francis Boyd served overseas in the US Army during WWII, and his brother-in-law William E Quirk (1916-1984) also served as a Private in the US Army during the war. Alexander’s brother Lawrence Malcolm Boyd served in the Canadian Army overseas, also with the Algonquin Regiment, and was killed in action on March 9, 1945 (interred at Groesbeek Canadian War Cemetery). Alexander began his basic training July 21, 1944 at Canadian Infantry Basic Training Centre (CIBTC) No. 60 (also known as Camp 60) in Yarmouth, NS. Next, he began his advanced training at Canadian Infantry Training Centre A14 at Aldershot in Kings County, NS on September 17, 1944. He departed Canada on December 18th, arriving in the United Kingdom on Boxing Day, December 26, 1944. He embarked in the UK on February 23rd and disembarked in Northwest Europe the next day on February 24, 1945. He was killed in action April 17, 1945. Private Boyd was initially interred at a temporary cemetery (Section 1, Row 3, Grave 2) in Friesoythe, Germany, and reinterred at the Holten Canadian War Cemetery in Netherlands (Section VI, Row F, Grave 11).

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