Virtual
War Memorial
Australia

Private William Boyd, third son of Mr. John Boyd, of 6th Avenue, Hyde Park, Lidcombe, and brother of Mrs. T. Dixon, of 3rd Avenue, was in the big push at Pozieres and was reported missing on 19th  July last year. Nothing more was heard of him until the day before his brother, Private John Boyd, who was invalided home, landed in Sydney on 18th September last, when the military authorities  reported him as having been killed in action. Some time ago, however, Mrs. Dixon received back a letter she had written to him, and on the envelope was marked, "Missing and wounded; believed to be in hospital, England." This has given her great hopes that he might yet turn up, as others have who had previously been reported dead. She is now instituting inquiries through various agencies as to  her brother 's fate. The family, if not the oldest residents of Hyde Park, may easily lay claim to being one of the oldest. The father of Mrs. Dixon and the soldier heroes, now a good old age, still resides  at the Park, and the whole of his children were born there. The subject of our notice was 23 years of age. He obtained his schooling at St. Joseph's Convent school, Lidcombe. Prior to enlisting he  worked at his trade as a painter with Mr. Saunders. He left for the war on 2nd November, 1915, with tho 2nd Battalion, and put in a rough seven months in the Arabian Desert. From there he went to France, having meanwhile  been transferred to the 53rd Battalion. He was only in the firing line in France a short time.