In Poelcapelle British Cemetery, Belgium is the Commonwealth War Grave of Captain Hugh Lennox Fleming Boyd, serving with the 1st Battalion Black Watch (Royal Highlanders) who died 18/11/1917.
The son of Hugh Fenwick Boyd, Q.C., and Elizabeth Boyd, of Noddings, Wormley, Godalming.
The Newcastle Journal 31/12/1918 reports:-
MEMORIAL IN WEST RAINTON CHURCH.
A two-light window by Messrs Powell and Sons, London, was dedicated in Rainton Church, near Learn side, in memory of Edward Fenwick Boyd, Lieut., 1st Battalion of the Northumberland Fusiliers, only son of the late Robert Fenwick and Annie Boyd, who was killed in action Vailly-sur-Aise, on September 20 1914, aged 24; and of Hugh Lennox Fleming Boyd, Capt., 1st Battalion the Black Watch, only son the late Hugh Fenwick and Elizabeth Boyd, who was killed in action at Passchendaele, November 18 1917, aged 26.
The left hand light represents the figure St. George, the Patron Saint of the Northumberland Fusiliers, and the right hand light that of St. Andrew, the Patron Saint of Scotland, and also of the Black Watch. Underneath is inscribed: “He asked life of Thee,” “And Thou gavest him a long life, even for ever and ever.”
These two young soldiers who made the great sacrifice for their King and country were grandsons of the late Mr Edward Fenwick Boyd, Moor House, Leamside, County Durham, and were, with one exception, the last male survivors of family whose name was formerly well known in the county of Durham and in Newcastle.
The window was dedicated at a special afternoon service the Rev. Stephen Parkinson, Vicar of Rainton, and there were present on the occasion Mrs Hugh Fenwick Boyd and her daughters. Miss Boyd, Mr William Boyd, and other friends. Mr Robert Boyd was unable to attend owing to ill-health.
Hugh Lennox Fleming Boyd is remembered in West Rainton on W113.03
