Studio portrait of (left) 15647 Private (Pte) Thomas (Samuel) Lloyd, Army Medical Corps; and ...

Accession Number P06995.001
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Digital file JPEG
Maker Unknown
Place made Australia
Date made 1916
Conflict First World War, 1914-1918
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

Studio portrait of (left) 15647 Private (Pte) Thomas (Samuel) Lloyd, Army Medical Corps; and (right) 1149 Pte Sydney George Lloyd, 43rd Battalion, (later 10th Battalion); both of Narracoorte, SA. Thomas Lloyd, a labourer before enlisting on 15 March 1916, embarked from Adelaide on the HMAT Port Melbourne on 23 October 1916. He was taken on strength of the 4th Field Ambulance on 14 January 1917. On 6 May 1917 he was wounded in action, rejoining his unit on 25 May 1917. His brother, Sydney Lloyd, was a tinsmith before enlisting on 11 April 1916. He embarked from Adelaide on HMAT Afric with A Company on 9 June 1916, and was taken on strength of the 10th Battalion on 2 October 1916. He was killed in action in France on 7 May 1917. On 3 July 1917, Gunner Thomas Lloyd was taken on strength of the 54th Battery, 14th Field Artillery Brigade, joining a third brother, 1988 Driver (Dvr) William Horace Lloyd. Thomas and William Lloyd were killed in action on the same day in Belgium, on 25 March 1918. A fourth brother, Egbert Cecil James Lloyd, enlisted on 15 March 1916 but was discharged as unfit on 9 August 1916 due to the effects of a previous leg injury.