BORN GOXHILL, LINCS 1887. SON OF SAMUEL STEPHENSON SLOAN AND MARY ALICE BOYD, 47 GREEK STREET. FOURTH OF NINE CHILDREN. LIVED ABOVE ADDRESS, HESSLE AND 47 GREEK STREET WITH BROTHER JOEL AND FOUR SISTERS. A BOOT MAKER BY TRADE. HE HAD PREVIOUSLY SERVED IN THE 2ND EYR. ENLISTED IN THE HULL PALS 12/12/1914. SERVED IN EGYPT FROM 15/12/1915. ARRIVED FRANCE 8/3/1916. KILLED IN ACTION 13/11/1916.
Hull Pals Memorial Post. PRIVATE JOSEPH BOYD 12/1158. Born in Goxhill, Lincolnshire in 1887 Joseph was the fourth of nine children to Samuel and Mary Boyd of 47 Greek Street, Hawthorn Avenue, Hull. A Boot Maker by trade, he had previously served in the 2nd Battalion East Yorkshire Regiment and would therefore have been mobilized on the outbreak of war. He enlisted at City Hall on 12th December 1914 joining the 12th Battalion, 3rd Hull Pals. Joseph was killed in action during the last desperate attempt to straighten a salient in the line at Serre on what was the last fruitless labour of the infamous Somme offensive which had cost more than a million men over the Summer and Autumn of 1916. It was November 13th, the bloodiest day in the battalion’s history. Joseph is buried in Euston Road Cemetery; he was 29 years old.
Boyd, Joseph
First name:
JOSEPH
Military Number:
12/1158
Rank:
Private
Date Died
13/11/1916
Place died:
Euston Road Cemetery, Colincamps, Somme, France
Age:
29
