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Private JOSEPH PORTER BOYD

Service Number: 37373
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Cameronians (Scottish Rifles)

1st/7th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 30 December 1917

Age 35 years old

Buried or commemorated at

PORT SAID WAR MEMORIAL CEMETERY

C. 45.

Egypt

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Joseph Porter Boyd and the late Helen Anderson Boyd; husband of Helen Boyd, of 11A, Church Wynd, Bo'ness, West Lothian. Native of Carluke, Lanarkshire.
  • Personal Inscription TILL THE DAY DAWNS AND THE SHADOWS FLY AWAY
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Buried or commemorated at

PORT SAID WAR MEMORIAL CEMETERY
Egypt
Number of casualties: 1104
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