J. Boyd (Lance Corporal, d. 1901)

? – 2 February 1901

Connection to the Koup

Buried in this district, at Prince Albert district, Klaarstroom, Church of the Good Shepherd, church yard (1901-02-02).

Names

Given: J
Surname: Boyd

The formal baptismal name and the name a person was actually called are both kept, and neither is derived from the other. Spelling drift between records is evidence, not noise.

A life in the record

2 February 1901 died Died
undated buried Buried, Prince Albert district, Klaarstroom, Church of the Good Shepherd, church yard
Not read by this project; a Guild Cross, recorded from the eGGSA caption 'BOYD J. -1901'.

Stories

subject The war reaches the Koup

What we don't know

No birth date is recorded.
Neither parent is recorded, so this person is not attached to the tree above them.
No dated record ties this person to a specific piece of ground.

A sourced gap beats an unsourced fill. These are the open questions on this person, stated rather than papered over.

Research notes

[SRC-010, SRC-625] Lance Corporal, described by Rose Willis as 'a tough Irishman who had lived in Australia' and as THE FIRST MAN TO ENROL IN THE SCOTTISH SHARPSHOOTERS. Critically wounded in the running fight through DIE GANG on 2 February 1901, he hid in Wolwekloof, and when the unarmed Johannes KleuM (PER-000518) stumbled on him he took fright, reached for his gun and shot Kleu in the chest. He died of his own wounds and was found by R du Plessis only while Kleu's grave was being dug. Buried beside Trooper Gishford; AFTER THE WAR HIS WIDOW ASKED THAT HE BE REINTERRED AT THE NEAREST ANGLICAN CHURCH, which was the CHURCH OF THE GOOD SHEPHERD AT KLAARSTROOM, and that is where his Guild Cross stands (CEM-477, caption 'BOYD J. -1901'). THIS PROJECT HELD HIS GRAVE IN THE eGGSA HARVEST AND HIS NAME IN A STORY FOR A MONTH WITHOUT JOINING THE TWO. His initial and unit are not fully recorded; ROHSA holds no Boyd who died in the Cape in 1901, so the war-graves databases have not caught him. [TO VERIFY]

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