Private Neill Wilkinson Boyle

Neill Boyle was 21 years old and married when he enlisted with the 125^th Battalion in Paris. He had been born in Bushmills, in Antrim Ireland and was a working as a laborer. He identified himself as a Methodist but he is commemorated at St James Anglican Church.

Neill was a member of the 9^th Platoon that embarked aboard the S.S Scandinavia on February 12, 1916. The 9^th and 10^th Platoons were the first contingent of soldiers from Paris, nearly 100 men, to go overseas. He would have been transferred to another battalion after arriving in England, but we know nothing more of his military service during the war except that he survived it.