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County - e.g., Haywood County (Tenn.) If no county is listed at top of card, use county of the place they entered service. If that is out of state, use the birth county.: Van Buren County (Tenn.)

Name in full (Last name, First name Middle name, e.g., York, Alvin C.): Boyd, Tillman A.

Date of birth - Year Month Day - e.g., 1895 November 2: 1899 May 10

Where born, Town (if any), and County and State - e.g., Memphis (Tenn.): Van Buren County (Tenn.)

Name of parents - separate with semicolons ; (Last name, First name Middle name): Boyd, Robert; Boyd, Melvin

Place of their birth - e.g., Memphis (Tenn.): Warren County (Tenn.)

Name of nearest kin (Last name, First name Middle name): Webb, E. H.

Date of entering service - Year Month Day - e.g., 1917 May 11: 1917 August 11

Place of entering service e.g., Memphis (Tenn.): Georgia

Branch of service (Army, Navy, Marines) E.g., Infantry or Artillery is Army.: Army

Company:

Regiment:

Division: 82nd

Rank when first in service: Private 1st Class

Date of sailing: 1918 June 7

Date of arrival in Europe: 1918 June 15

Battles: Verdun; Toul Sector, St. Mihiel

Casulaties: Gassed Oct. 9 1918, Argonne Forest