Jamie Ralph Boyd Aircraftman 2nd Class R/130201 Royal Canadian Air Force May 30, 1923 Coldwater, Ontario October 24, 1941 North Bay, Ontario Goldlands 18 5 feet, 5 inches Dark Brown Black Single Labourer United Church William Thornton Boyd (Father) Goldlands, Ontario December 13, 1941 18 Orillia (St. Andrew and James) Cemetery, Ontario Block 73. Lot 1.

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Jamie Ralph Boyd was the son of William Thornton Boyd and Janet Florence (Walker) Boyd, of Goldlands, Ontario. He was the brother of Arnold W. A. Boyd who served with the Canadian Army overseas during WWII. Jamie Boyd worked on the farm with his father for two years, after leaving school and was employed as a labourer with Abitibi Paper and Power Company, Iroquois Falls, Ontario. Known as a young man of a cheerful and generous nature, he was well known and popular in his community. His hobby was stamp collecting and landscape gardening. Enlisting on October 24, 1941, he was assigned to No. 4 Service Flying Training School at Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, on November 6, 1941 and to RCAF Patricia Bay, British Columbia, on December 10, 1941. On December 13, 1941 he was engaged in filling sand bags at Mills Road sand pit one half mile from the RCAF Station for Station defence posts He was killed, the result of injuries received during a cave-in in the sand pit in which he was working. Aircraftman 2nd Class Jamie Ralph Boyd is also commemorated on the WWII Memorial in Orillia, Ontario.