Boyce, Connell

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Category: 1917-18

Connell Boyce

Argylls

9th Batt. then the 10th Batt. Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders
He is remembered with honour on the St Joseph's Church Roll of Honour and the Helensburgh War Memorial, Column 2 Line 29.

The family home was 24 John Street, Helensburgh The son of Connell Boyce (surfaceman for the Railway Company) and Janet Stevenson Harper Boyce.
Siblings: Three brothers, Patrick, Charles and James and three sisters, Agnes, Bridget and Elizabeth. His older brother, Charles, also fought with the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders in the war.

Connell (Conall) Boyce was born and grew up in Helensburgh, where his father was a surface man on the railways. He came from a large family of seven children and was educated at Clyde Street School. His father, also Connell, was born in Ireland and his mother came from Bannockburn, Stirlingshire.

Connell enlisted at the age of 17. Only two years later he lay injured on the Fields of Flanders. Taken to the military hospital, he had an arm amputated but died shortly after. Connell was only 19 years old.

The parents chose the inscription for his grave which read: 'In the shelter of thy sacred heart Dear Jesus may he rest'.