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Once again, I am wrong. By reverse image searching this team photo, it is Third Lanark FC team photo. BBC Scotland had a program about the team and THIS is the photo they used to promote it.
So it is Third Lanark, still Bob Boyd in photo...it is the Mossend Swifts pic(s) that remain elusive, I know they exist!!

I've rescanned photo, hopefully looks a little better. The copy of team photo my mother
has does have names, listed below:

front row:     J Hill, R Paterson, J McNab, A Kay, G Ross, W Leslie
middle row:  T Hamilton, J Rutherford (trainer) J Wilson, J Paterson, T MacPherson, J Fraser,
                   T Halliday (Match Secretary)
front row:     J. Henderson (trainer), W Walker, R. McCartney (captain), Robert Boyd, M. Gillespie,
                   R. Marshall

I've always believed (and was told) this was the Swifts, but I think it may actually be a photo
from Robert Boyd's days at Leith Athletic. I will have to search more-I know there was a Willie
Walker on Leith, will keep digging. Apologies for identifying the photo as Mossend Swifts, but
it is definitely Robert Boyd pictured in both, for those who were looking for photos of him

Mossend Swifts team photo. Robert Boyd front row, third from right

I have two photographs of Robert Boyd, one with the Mossend team (not very good quality, it's
a copy of a copy) and another with the Scottish national team that he played two games with.
I've tried uploading full team photos but the file size may be too big, will not let me upload. I found
the international team photo on ancestry.com, I have been searching quite a while for something
like that-I will continue to try and upload it, but if I cannot, feel free to contact me and I will email
photos to you. My mother had the Swifts team photo, Robert Boyd was her grandfather, so I suppose
it was passed on to her by family.  The Robert Boyd in Mcrea's Battalion book (The Cowpuncher!)
was the son of Robert Boyd of Swifts.