Lot 316

Description

WWI, Royal Naval Air Service, Russian Armoured Car Division, a souvenir Russian twenty kopeks, 1915-17, with reverse shaved smooth and stipple engraved, R.N.A.S./P.O./H.S.Boyd./No.9562. Fine.

Royal Navy personnel from Northern Ireland served in an armoured car squadron in the Russian Empire in WWI. One of these was Petty Officer Henry Stanley Boyd from Greenwood, Lisburn in Northern Ireland. After WWI, Henry Boyd immigrated to New Zealand. A report in the NZ Herald on 26 October 1942 stated that Henry Stanley Boyd aged 52 collapsed and died in a city-bound tramcar at Epsom. A naval surgeon on the tram gave assistance but he was dead when an ambulance arrived.

With research that includes the history of the RNAS serving in the Russian Armoured Car Division in the Russian Empire with a listing of all personnel involved.