L/Tel. Frank Weston Boyd CdG.
Royal Navy HMS Hardy
from:Middlesbrough
Frank Boyd passed away in 1984, I have a paper cutting from 1944 of his valour award and key parts of his service: Middlesbrough Sailor Awarded Croix de Guerre. The Croix de Guerre, with bronze star, has been awarded to Leading Telegraphist Frank W. Boyd, aged 24, son of Mr. and Mrs. R. Boyd, of 65, Cranfield Ave., Middlesbrough. The citation states that Boyd, accomplished his mission with greatest possible coolness during the course of an engagement fought by his ship on 29th February 1940 against an enemy convoy which was destroyed in the 1st Battle of Narvik.
Leading Telegraphist Boyd, who is on a French light cruiser in a liaison capacity, was decorated with all due ceremony before the ship’s company by Admiral Le Monnier. One of few British sailors to be so decorated in this war, he has served on eight naval vessels during hostilities. He has been eight years in the Navy. He was on the Hardy when that ship was lost in the early part of the war, and was at Taranto, Matapan, the evacuation of Greece and Crete, and at Oran, and was on the headquarters' staff of Admiral Cunningham at Algiers. Formerly, he had been a choir boy at St. Paul's, Middlesbrough.
