Hugh Boyd (footballer)

{{Short description|Australian rules footballer and dental surgeon}}

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| fullname = Hugh Julian Boyd

| birth_date = {{birth date|1886|4|24|df=y}}

| birth_place = Bendigo

| death_date = {{Death date and age|1960|8|8|1886|4|24|df=y}}

| death_place = Sandringham, Victoria

| originalteam = Caulfield Grammar

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| statsend = 1909

| years1 = 1909

| club1 = {{AFL Uni}}

| games_goals1 = 1 (2)

| careerhighlights = * AIF Pioneer Exhibition Game, London,
28 October 1916

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Hugh Julian Boyd {{post-nominals|MC}} (24 April 1886 – 8 August 1960) was a dental surgeon, and a former Australian rules footballer who played with University in the Victorian Football League (VFL). He served in the First AIF, and was awarded a Military Cross in 1917.

Family

The son of Hugh Boyd, (1843-1916) M.D.,[https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/91387157 Dr. Hugh Boyd Killed: Crushed by Motor Car: Widespread Regret, The Bendigonian, (Thursday, 9 March 1916), p.25]; [https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/220920368 Late Dr. Boyd, The Bendigo Independent, (Tuesday, 7 March 1916), p.3.] and Julia Elizabeth Boyd (1855-1927), née Maddox,[https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/3886778 Deaths: Boyd, The Argus, (Saturday, 22 October 1927), p17.] Hugh Julian Boyd was born in Bendigo on 24 April 1886.[https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/88542228 Births, The Bendigo Advertiser, (Saturday, 1 May 1886), p.2.] Note that the application form within his Service Record shows his age as 28 years and 5 months, and his year of birth as "1887" (rather than 29 years and 5 month, and 1886, respectively). His brother, Erle Alwin Greglach Boyd (1892-1970) served in the Royal Australian Navy for 35 years.[http://www.navy.gov.au/biography/chief-petty-officer-erle-alwin-greglach-boyd Biography: Chief Petty Officer Erle Alwin Greglach Boyd, Royal Australian Navy.]

He married Doris Norah Gosewinckel (1894-1952) on 8 August 1935.[https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/203845376 Marriages: Hughes—Gosewinckel, The Age, (Saturday, 21 September 1935), p.11.][https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/23191206 Deaths: Boyd, The Argus, (Saturday, 16 August 1952), p.15.] He died on 8 August 1960.[https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=_K4UAAAAIBAJ&sjid=grYDAAAAIBAJ&pg=5941%2C1411580 Deaths: Boyd, The Age, (Tuesday, 9 August 1960), p.16.]

Education

Educated at St. Andrew's College, Bendigo, at Caulfield Grammar School,Webber (1981), p.283.[https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/139169003 Caulfield Grammar School, The Australasian, (Saturday, 29 December 1900), p.24]; [https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/192219494 Caulfield Grammar School, The Age, (Monday, 23 December 1901), p.6.]; [https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/139130641 College Sports, The Australasian, (Saturday, 6 September 1902), p.26]; [https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/138678464 Caulfield Grammar School, The Australasian, (Saturday, 3 January 1903), p.39]; [https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/138686225 College Sports, The Australasian, (Saturday, 6 June 1903), p.23]; [https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/138686933 College Sports, The Australasian, (Saturday, 20 June 1903), p.23.] and at the University of Melbourne.[https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/imgsrv/download/pdf?id=uc1.%24b744566;orient=0;size=100;seq=155;num=77;attachment=0 Roll of Service Overseas 1914–1918: Roll of the Returned: Boyd, Hugh Julian 1905, The University of Melbourne Record of Active Service of Teachers, Graduates, Undergraduates, Officers and Servants in the European War, 1914–1918, University of Melbourne, (Melbourne), 1926, p.77.] He commenced his dental surgery studies in 1905, and was awarded a Licentiate of Dental Surgery (LDS) in 1911.[https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/196182215 The Dental College: Annual Commencement, The Age, (Tuesday, 14 March 1911), p.11.] He graduated Bachelor of Dental Science (BDSc) in December 1928.[https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/204257503 Melbourne University, The Age, (Monday, 24 December 1928), p.13.]

Football

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He played one match for the university team in the Victorian Football League (VFL) competition.

He played with the South Bendigo Football Club.[https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/89098789 Returning Soldiers, The Bendigonian, (Thursday, 10 October 1918), p.7.]

He also played for the Australian Training Units Team, in the famous "Pioneer Exhibition Game" of Australian Rules football, held in London, in October 1916 against the Third Australian Divisional Team. A news film was taken at the match.The original newsreel: {{YouTube | LuUjgJHLgdg | title= Australian Football (Pathé Newsreel, 1916)}}The 2019 remastered and colourised version of the original newsreel: {{YouTube | B88dBgC01YA | title= Australian Football (Pathé Newsreel, 1916), remastered and colourised version (2019)}}

Military service

He enlisted in the First AIF in September 1915.

He was awarded a Military Cross (MC) in 1917:Awarded the Military Cross (19 November 1917), Commonwealth of Australia Gazette, No.120, (Wednesday, 7 August 1918), [https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/232462063/24998395 p.1658],[https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/232462063/24998396 p.1659.]

::At Polygon Wood on 25/9/17 this officer was in charge of "A" Coy the right company in the line. He was on the extreme right of the 15 Bde Sector. At 5:30 AM his line was heavily attacked by the enemy. By the vigorous resistance of his Coy the enemy was beaten back and the front line held intact. The enemy penetrated the front & support lines of the 1st Middlesex and enfiladed him by Machine Gun fire. This officer formed a defensive flank & foiled repeated attempts by the enemy to roll up his line. His personal work was magnificent & his courage inspired his men to hold out in a desperate situation. Had he failed to hold his line the success of the attack on the following morning would have been in jeopardy. It was largely owing to his celerity in appreciating the situation that the Brigade front was held intact. (29 September 1917)[https://s3-ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com/awm-media/collection/RCDIG1068235/document/5495421.PDF Original recommendation for Honour, Collection of the Australian War Museum.]

Footnotes

References

Holmesby, Russell & Main, Jim (2007). The Encyclopedia of AFL Footballers. 7th ed. Melbourne: Bas Publishing.
{{cite book | author=Webber, Horace | title=Years May Pass On... Caulfield Grammar School, 1881–1981 | publisher=Centenary Committee, Caulfield Grammar School, (East St Kilda) | year=1981 | isbn=0-9594242-0-2}}
[http://purl.slwa.wa.gov.au/slwa_b1874692_13.pdf?agree Pioneer Exhibition Game Australian Football: in aid of British and French Red Cross Societies: 3rd Australian Division v. Australian Training Units at Queen's Club, West Kensington, on Saturday, October 28th, 1916, at 3pm, Wightman & Co., (London), 1919.]
Photograph at [http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article89088489 Awarded the Military Cross, The Bendigonian, (Thursday, 17 January 1918), p.15.]
[https://s3-ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com/awm-media/collection/RCDIG1067423/large/5370394.JPG First World War Embarkation Roll: Lieutenant Hugh Julian Boyd, collection of the Australian War Memorial.]
[https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/R2167123 First World War Nominal Roll: Lieutenant Hugh Julian Boyd (M.C.), collection of the Australian War Memorial.]
[https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/R1588143 Honours and Awards (Recommendation): Lieutenant Hugh Julian Boyd, collection of the Australian War Memorial.]
[https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/R1539330 Honours and Awards: Lieutenant Hugh Julian Boyd, collection of the Australian War Memorial.]
[https://ww1valour.weebly.com/military-cross-recipients-bl--by.html Australian WWI Acts of Valour: Military Cross: Boyd, Hugh Julian, ww1valour.weebly.com.]
[https://recordsearch.naa.gov.au/SearchNRetrieve/NAAMedia/ViewPDF.aspx?B=3105367&D=D First World War Service Record: Lieutenant Hugh Julian Boyd, MC, National Archives of Australia.]