Lieutenant Basil Boyce

Basil joined the 22 Saskatoon Light Horse in August, 1914 and was sent overseas in 1915. He fought in the trenches and was wounded at Messines Road.

Promoted to Lance Corporal and then to Lieutenant, he joined the Royal Flying Corps and on one of his missions he was shot down by Lothar von Richtofen and sent to POW camp Holzminden. He was repatriated to England in December, 1918.

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Basil Pridden Boyce

Lieutenant Boyce returned to Saskatoon in 1919 and enrolled in the College of Law at the University of Saskatchewan. He then articled with Russel Hartney, a Saskatoon lawyer. He practiced law in Saskatoon.

Basil married Laeta Hunter in 1926 and the couple were among those who travelled to France for the opening ceremony of the Vimy Memorial in 1936. Basil rejoined the army in 1942 with the rank of Captain.

In 1939 he was appointed Sheriff for the Judicial District of Saskatoon and he remained in this position of Sheriff at the Saskatoon Court House until he retired. Basil passed away on May 10, 1980.