Gilbert was in the army in WWII. During the Persian Gulf Command, he was in Iran, a mechanically challenged private, putting together Russian tanks Seven months later he was sent to Pisa, Italy. He left 19 November 1943 and was discharged in 1946. Waiting for the train in Nashville, a woman asked him to watch her baby. He worried his train would come before she got back. It didn't. Meda, wrote him letters every day. Arriving in Iran, 72 letters were waiting for him. Story by Linda Gail Boyd Wells, d/o Gilbert & Meda Boyd.

Gilbert Everett Boyd

b. 13 March 1921, Putnam Co., TN
d. 20 August 1999, Eastpointe, Macomb Co., MI
Wife: Meda Florence Allison md 22 November 1941, Putnam Co., TN
Father: John Calvin Boyd Sr.(1896-1967)
Mother: Mary Lou Shanks (1903-1990)
Buried: Cadillac Memorial Gardens East, Clinton Twp,. MI - Garden of Masonic
See Joseph Jared & Boyd Line

US Army
World War II