Kenneth Seymour Boyd

A Lance Corporal with the 1st Battalion, Kenneth died on 30th of June 1915 at the age of 24.

Kenneth was born at Broxbourne, Hertfordshire, in 1891, a son of Alexander Gaviller Boyd and Charlotte Christian Boyd. By 1901 his family were living at Stronsay, Kirkley Cliff Road, Lowestoft. 

Kenneth was working as a 'city whare-houseman' for Messrs. Boyd & Co., London, when he volunteered to join the Honourable Artillery Company on 24 July 1911. At the time he was living at 35 Mount Pleasant, Upper Clapton. He volunteered to serve for four years in the Territorial Force. He was mobilized on 5 August 1914. 

Kenneth was promoted to Lance Corporal on 7 November 1914. He arrived in France on 28 December 1914 and joined the Battalion at Kemmel on 13 January 1915. In June 1915 the Battalion moved to Ypres. Kenneth was killed in action near Hooge. 

 His brother Stewart Augustine Boyd also fell.