Five: Chief Petty Officer J. Boyd, Royal Navy, who saw land service during the Second Boer War while serving with the gunboat H.M.S. Partridge, and was later present at the Battles of Dogger Bank and Jutland aboard the destroyer H.M.S. Hydra

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 2 clasps, Cape Colony, South Africa 1901 (J. Boyd, Boy 1st Cl., H.M.S. Partridge); 1914-15 Star (196540. J. Boyd. P.O., R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (196540 J. Boyd. C.P.O. R.N.); Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 1st issue (196540. John Boyd, P.O. H.M.S. Woolwich.) light contact marks, very fine (5) £200-£240

John Boyd was born in Shoreham, Sussex in February 1882. He enlisted into the Royal Navy on the 9 November 1897 and served aboard the training ship H.M.S Indefatigable as a Boy Second Class. He transferred to the gunboat H.M.S. Partridge in May 1899 and served with the ship during the Second Boer War, which included some land service, earning him clasps to his Queen’s South Africa Medal.

Throughout the Great War, Boyd served aboard the destroyer, H.M.S. Hydra as a Chief Petty Officer, originally joining the ship in December 1913. The ship was present at the both the Battles of Dogger Bank and Jutland. He was awarded his Long Service and Good Conduct Medal in March 1915 whilst assigned to the depot ship H.M.S. Woolwich. Boyd transferred to the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve in 1922 and remained with that service until February 1926.