Second Lieutenant Charles Gordon Boyd

Army Number : n/a (formerly Private 6049 18th Battalion Royal Fusiliers)

Battalion : 7th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Son of George Herbert and Sarah Louisa Boyd, of Elm Lodge, Ranelagh Grove, St. Peters-in-Thanet, Kent. He was a civil servant prior to enlisting. He went to France 14th November 1915, Commissioned Second Lieutenant Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment, 9th August 1916 and posted to the 7th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment, 10th August 1916. He was killed in action, 3rd May 1917 aged 24, whilst attached to the 9th Battalion, Leicestershire Regiment.

Buried : Heninel-Croisilles Road Cemetery, France. Plot 2. Row E. Grave 10.

Second Lieutenant Charles Gordon Boyd is also commemorated on the following memorials:-
St. Andrews Church War Memorial, Nottingham.
Nottingham Boys’ High School War Memorial, Nottingham.
Victoria Embankment War Memorial, Nottingham.