
Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Board / Plaque / Tablet
- District
- Durham
- Town
- Durham
- County
- Durham
- Country
- England
- Commemoration
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Maker
- MESSRS LOWES AND SONS (Makers)
- Ceremony
- Placed
Date: May 1918
Attended by: Lieutenant Boyd's parents
- Placed
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 67953
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Current location
Behind the altar
St Nicholas Church
Market Place
Durham
Durham
Durham
DH1 3NJ
England
OS Grid Ref: NZ 27369 42546
Denomination: Church of England
- Description
- Rectangular tablet with a red marble frame and semicircular extensions, at the top enclosing IHS, and below the dedication written in black lettering. The badge of the Durham Light Infantry is at the lower edge of the frame.
- Inscription
- TO THE GLORY OF GOD/ AND IN LOVING MEMORY OF/ LIEUT: WILLIAM BOYD 8th D.L.I./ WHO FELL IN ACTION AT WARLENCOURT/ ON 5th NOV: 1916 AGED 22 YEARS/ GREATER LOVE HATH NO MAN THAN THIS/ THAT A MAN LAY DOWN HIS LIFE FOR HIS FRIENDS.
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Names on memorial
- Boyd, William
See details - Commemorations
- First World War (1914-1918)
Total names on memorial: 1
Served and returned: 0
Died: 1
Exact count: yes
Information shown: Rank, forename, surname, manner of death, place of death, date of death, age of death.
Order of information: Undefined
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Components
- Tablet
Measurements: height 525mm, width 775mm
Materials: Marble
- Tablet
- Listing information
- This memorial is not currently listed. Find out how to nominate this memorial for inclusion on the National Heritage List for England
- More about listing and the protection of historic places can be found on the Historic England website
- Condition
- Trust fund/Scholarship
- No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A - Reference
- newmp.org.uk/detail.php?contentId=7077
- www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/767128/BOYD, WILLIAM
- Newcastle Journal 18 May 1918 reports the memorial being placed by his parents
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