Captain G. F. Boyd, whose name appears in the osaualty list among! the wounded, is a brother of Mr.
R. Boyd, of Shanghai, and was Brigade Major to the ith. Infantry Brigade He has the rare ddestinotion of being the only officer in the service holding both the D. C. M. (only granted to the rank and file) and the D. 8. O., winning both honours in South Africa. The first honour was conferred upon him a sergeant in the Devons for conspicuous gallantry at Colenso, and the second as a Lieutenant in the East Yorkshire regiment, for his skill in getting a company of the 3rd Mounted Infantry out of particularly tight corner.
With few exceptions, the regiments mentioned in the casualty Uist hold high places in the annals of the British Army, many of them being represented in all or most of the battles on the Continent which have made modern history, and all having served in numerous Colonial wars. The services they have rendered are briefly outlined below.
The Ist Royal Munster Fusiliers (formerly the 101st Regiment) was raised in 1652 as a "Guard of Honour" to the East India company' in Bengal. The corps was largely augmented, and took part in many important engagements during the next fifty year A detachment was sent to China in 1808, one against the Dutch and the Molucca Islands, 1810-17. The regiment saw service
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