Année de naissance: 1895

Lieu de naissance: City of Westminster, Middlesex, Angleterre, Royaume-Uni

Profession: Hall boy

Pays: Angleterre, Royaume-Uni

Force armée: British Expeditionary Force

Rang: Gunner

Numéro de service: 69289

Unités:  —  Royal Field Artillery, 37th Bty. 27th Bde.  (Dernière unité connue)

Date de décès: 02/10/1917

Lieu de décès: Sanctuary Wood, Zillebeke, Belgique

Cause du décès: Killed in action (K.I.A.)

Âge: 22

British War Medal Médaille — 13/03/1920

Victory Medal Médaille — 13/03/1920

Gunner William David Lloyd served in the 37th Battery of the 27th Brigade Royal Field Artillery, part of the 5th Division’s Divisional artillery.

On the 2nd of October 1917 the 27th Brigade Royal Field artillery had to relieve the Divisional artillery of the 5th Australian Division, between Zouave Wood and Maple copse. They were to support the 5th Division, who were to attack Polderhoek Chateau on the 9th of October 1917.

The 37th Battery took up positions in a field just west of Sanctuary Wood, roughly a 1000 yards east of the village of Zillebeke. During the night German airplanes carried out several bombing runs on the Brigade’s wagon lines and its back area. During the whole month of October the German artillery regularly shelled the back and forward area of the 27th Brigade Royal Field artillery.

Gunner William David Lloyd was killed in action on the 2nd of October 1917. He might have been killed, due to German shelling or bombing, near Sanctuary Wood or while going up to the 37th Battery’s position at Sanctuary Wood. He was buried in La Clytte Military Cemetery at Loker.

Ancestry https://www.ancestry.com/ Autre référence

CWGC https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/438552/lloyd,-william-d./ Sources utilisées

The Long, Long Trail http://www.longlongtrail.co.uk/army/ Sources utilisées

War Diary 27th Brigade Royal Field Artillery http://www.nmarchive.com/ Autre référence

War Diary HQ 5th Divisional Artillery http://www.nmarchive.com/ Autre référence