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{{short description|English cricketer and soldier}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=May 2021}}
{{Infobox cricketer
| name = John Boyd
| image =
| country = England
| full_name = John Hardy Boyd
| birth_date = 20 April 1899
| birth_place = [[Stockport]], [[Cheshire]], England
| death_date = {{death date and age|1962|12|7|1899|4|20|df=yes}}
| death_place = [[Salisbury]], [[Wiltshire]], England
| nickname =
| family =
| batting = Unknown
| bowling = Unknown
| role =
| club1 = [[Europeans cricket team|Europeans]]
| year1 = 1921/22
| columns = 1
| column1 = [[First-class cricket|First-class]]
| matches1 = 2
| runs1 = 1
| bat avg1 = 1.00
| 100s/50s1 = –/–
| top score1 = 1
| deliveries1 = 54
| wickets1 = 0
| bowl avg1 = –
| fivefor1 = –
| tenfor1 = –
| best bowling1 = –
| catches/stumpings1 = 3/–
| date = 17 December
| year = 2023
| source = https://www.espncricinfo.com/cricketers/john-boyd-27061 Cricinfo
}}

'''John Hardy Boyd''' {{postnominal|OBE}} (20 April 1899 – 7 December 1962) was an English first-class [[cricket]]er and an officer in the [[British Army]].

Boyd was born at [[Stockport]] in April 1899. He attended the [[Royal Military Academy, Woolwich|Royal Military Academy at Woolwich]], graduating from there during the latter stages of the [[First World War]] into the [[Royal Engineers]] as a [[Second lieutenant#United Kingdom and other Commonwealth countries|second lieutenant]].<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=30728|date=4 June 1918|page=6669|supp=y}}</ref> While serving in [[British India]], Boyd made two appearances in [[first-class cricket]] for the [[Europeans cricket team]] against the [[Hindus cricket team|Hindus]] and the [[Parsis cricket team|Parsees]] at [[Bombay Gymkhana|Bombay]] in the 1921–22 [[Bombay Tournament (cricket)|Bombay Quadrangular]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/13/13031/First-Class_Matches.html|title=First-Class Matches played by John Boyd|publisher=CricketArchive|accessdate=17 December 2023|url-access=subscription}}</ref> He was appointed an [[Adjutant#UK and other Commonwealth countries|adjutant]] in November 1926, by which point he held the rank of [[Lieutenant (British Army and Royal Marines)|lieutenant]].<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=33227|date=7 December 1926|page=8001}}</ref> Promotion to [[Captain (British Army and Royal Marines)|captain]] followed in June 1929,<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=33513|date=2 July 1929|page=4362}}</ref> prior to his appointment as an assistant instructor at the School of Anti-Aircraft Defence from October 1931 to January 1936.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=33761|date=9 October 1931|page=6465}}</ref><ref>{{London Gazette|issue=34241|date=10 January 1936|page=233}}</ref> He was then appointed to be an instructor in searchlights with the [[1st Anti-Aircraft Division (United Kingdom)|1st Anti-Aircraft Division]] in April 1936,<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=34276|date=21 April 1936|page=2558}}</ref> with promotion to [[Major (United Kingdom)|major]] following in June 1938.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=34517|date=7 June 1938|page=3638|supp=y}}</ref>

Boyd served in the [[Second World War]], during which he was promoted to [[Lieutenant colonel (United Kingdom)|lieutenant colonel]] in April 1944,<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=36695|date=8 September 1944|page=4207|supp=y}}</ref> with him also being made an [[Order of the British Empire|OBE]] in March 1945 for gallant and distinguished service in the [[North-West Europe campaign of 1944–45]].<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=37004|date=27 March 1945|page=1703|supp=y}}</ref> Following the war, he retired from active service in October 1949, at which point he was granted the honorary rank of [[Brigadier (United Kingdom)|brigadier]].<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=38745|date=28 October 1949|page=5122|supp=y}}</ref> Boyd died at [[Salisbury]] in December 1962. To friends and colleagues in the Royal Engineers, he was better known as '''George Boyd'''.<ref>{{cite book|title=The Royal Engineers Journal|date=1963|page=73|publisher=[[Royal Engineers#The Institution of Royal Engineers|Institution of Royal Engineers]]|location=[[London]]|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LYU3AQAAIAAJ|language=en}}</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
*{{cricinfo|id=27061}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Boyd, John}}
[[Category:1899 births]]
[[Category:1962 deaths]]
[[Category:Cricketers from Stockport]]
[[Category:Military personnel from Manchester]]
[[Category:Graduates of the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich]]
[[Category:Royal Engineers officers]]
[[Category:British Army personnel of World War I]]
[[Category:English cricketers]]
[[Category:Europeans cricketers]]
[[Category:Officers of the Order of the British Empire]]
[[Category:British Army brigadiers]]

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