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21/05/2020 01472
26/11/2016 Mr William Boyd, Millquarter, Toomebridge, has been officially notified of the death of his son, Private Robert Boyd, Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers. Private Boyd has been reported missing since the Battle of Festubert on 16th May last.
26/11/2016 From the Belfast Newsletter dated 3rd March 1916:
26/11/2016
17/06/2016 From the Belfast Newsletter dated 22nd July 1915:
17/06/2016 Information of the whereabouts of Private Robert James Boyd (3932), 2nd Battalion Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, who has been missing since the 16th May, would be thankfully received by his mother, Mrs Boyd, who resides at Millquarter, Toomebridge, County Antrim.
17/06/2016
05/06/2016 Private Robert Boyd, Royal Irish Fusiliers, Millquarter, Toomebridge, who went to the front at the outbreak of war, is reported wounded and missing.
05/06/2016
05/06/2016 From the Belfast Newsletter dated 25th June 1915:
30/12/2015 Robert James Boyd was the son of William and Mary Boyd. Robert was born bout 1893 in Ballyclare, Co. Antrim.
30/12/2015 He enlisted in Belfast.
30/12/2015 Private Robert James Boyd was serving with the 2nd Battalion of the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers when he was killed in action at the Battle of Festubert on 15th May 1916. He was 22 years old.
30/12/2015 Private Robert James Boyd has no known grave and is commemorated on Le Touret Memorial, in Pas De Calais, France.
30/12/2015 A newspaper report from July notes that he was of three sons who served in the war.
30/12/2015 The CWGC record Private Boyd as the son of William and Mary Boyd of Ballyscullion, Toomebridge, Co. Antrim.
30/12/2015 Mrs Mary Boyd, 6 Grange, Milewater, Toomebridge, is anxious for news of her son, Private Robert James Boyd, who was serving with the 2nd Battalion Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers and has been missing since May. He was one of three brothers all in the fighting line.
30/12/2015
30/12/2015 From the Belfast Newsletter dated 30th July 1915: Ulster & The War
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