A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Boyd, John Augustus Hugh
BOYD. (Lieutenant, 1845.)
John Augustus Hugh Boyd entered the Navy in 1832; passed his examination 12 June, 1839; served, as Mate, on the Mediterranean station, in the Castor 36, Capt. Edw. Collier, and Devastation and Medea steamers, Capts. Hon. Swynfen Thos. Carnegie and Fred. Warden; and, while in the former ship, was employed on shore at the taking, in 1840, of Caiffa and Tsour, on the coast of Syria, where he also beheld the fall of St. Jean d’Acre. At Caiffa, in particular, he appears to have assisted in planting the Ottoman flag on the ramparts.[1] He obtained his commission 28 May, 1845; and, with the exception of a short attachment in the same year to the St. Vincent 120, flag-ship at Portsmouth of Sir Chas. Rowley, has since been on half-pay.
- ↑ Vide Gaz. 1840, p. 2601.