Pte, Edgar William Boyd, 11th EYR

BORN HULL 1899. SON OF WILLIAM & SARAH DINAH BOYD, OF 5 EBOR AVENUE, EASTBOURNE STREET, HULL & HOLMPTON, WITHERNSEA. EX BLUNDELLS WORKER. FORMERLY SERVED WITH THE EAST RIDING YEOMANRY. ENLISTED IN THE HULL PALS. SERVED 18 MONTHS IN THE ARMY AND FOUR MONTHS IN FRANCE WHEN HE WAS KILLED IN ACTION, ON 03/08/1918, AGED 19. LISTED ON CITY ENGINEERS MEMORIAL. HIS DEATH WAS REPORTED IN HDM 22/8/18.

Hull Pals Memorial Post. PRIVATE EDGAR WILLIAM BOYD 52612. Born in 1899, Edgar was one of two children and the only son of William and Sarah Boyd of 5 Eastbourne Street, Hull. Unfortunately Edgar's older sister, Ida, had died as an infant leaving him the only child. When war came in 1914 Edgar was still a child of 15 and safe from the 'European Adventure' destined to be over by Christmas, but as the months drifted by and the casualties mounted, as the military age was lowered and the Conscription Bill became law, his parents must have dreaded what now must have seemed inevitable. Edgar signed up at Hull City Hall joining the 11th Battalion East Yorkshire Regiment, 2nd Hull Pals. He was killed in action on 3rd August 1918 and his body never recovered. The only surviving child of William and Sarah Boyd is commemorated on the Ploegsteert Memorial, still just a boy at 19. Photo shown in Hull Daily Mail 23/08/1918

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