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	[[Major-general (United Kingdom)\|Major General]] '''Wilfrid Lewis Lloyd''' [[Order of the British Empire\|CBE]], [[Distinguished Service Order\|DSO and Bar]], [[Military Cross\|MC]] (1 March 1896 – 22 January 1944) was an officer in the [[British Army]] and the [[British Indian Army]] during the [[World War I\|First]] and [[World War II\|Second]] world wars.		[[Major-general (United Kingdom)\|Major General]] '''Wilfrid Lewis Lloyd''' [[Order of the British Empire\|CBE]], [[Distinguished Service Order\|DSO and Bar]], [[Military Cross\|MC]] (1 March 1896 – 22 January 1944) was an officer in the [[British Army]] and the [[British Indian Army]] during the [[World War I\|First]] and [[World War II\|Second]] world wars.

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	Lloyd was commissioned into the 7th (Service) Battalion of the [[King's Shropshire Light Infantry]] in September 1914, arrived in France in October 1915, and fought with the regiment until 1917, winning a [[Military Cross]] during the [[Battle of the Somme]]. In 1917 he transferred to the Indian Army and was attached to 4th / 39th Garwhal Rifles.<ref>{{London Gazette\|issue=30781\|page=7952\| date=5 July 1918}} modified by {{London Gazette\|issue=31196\|page=2626\| date=21 February 1919}}</ref> He was later to join the 19th Hyderabad Regiment.		Lloyd was commissioned into the 7th (Service) Battalion of the [[King's Shropshire Light Infantry]] in September 1914, arrived in France in October 1915, and fought with the regiment until 1917, winning a [[Military Cross]] during the [[Battle of the Somme]]. In 1917 he transferred to the Indian Army and was attached to 4th / 39th Garwhal Rifles.<ref>{{London Gazette\|issue=30781\|page=7952\| date=5 July 1918}} modified by {{London Gazette\|issue=31196\|page=2626\| date=21 February 1919}}</ref> He was later to join the 19th Hyderabad Regiment.

			He remained in the army during the [[interwar period]], attending the [[Staff College, Camberley]] from 1927−1928.{{sfn\|Smart\|2005\|p=191}}

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[[Major-general (United Kingdom)|Major General]] '''Wilfrid Lewis Lloyd''' [[Order of the British Empire|CBE]], [[Distinguished Service Order|DSO and Bar]], [[Military Cross|MC]] (1 March 1896 – 22 January 1944) was an officer in the [[British Army]] and the [[British Indian Army]] during the [[World War I|First]] and [[World War II|Second]] world wars.

==Early life==
Lloyd was born in [[York]], [[England]], on 1 March 1896, son of Major Ernest Thomas Lloyd (1860-1935), formerly of the [[Imperial Civil Service|Bengal Civil Service]], and his wife Ethel Mary (died 1961), second daughter of Sir Richard Dansey Green-Price, 2nd [[Baronet]]. [[Sir Guy Lloyd, 1st Baronet]] (1890-1987), another future British Army officer and Member of Parliament, was his elder brother.<ref name=burkes>{{cite book|title=Burke's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage, 1963|publisher=Burke's Peerage Ltd|pages=1493–1494}}</ref>

==First World War==
Lloyd was commissioned into the 7th (Service) Battalion of the [[King's Shropshire Light Infantry]] in September 1914, arrived in France in October 1915, and fought with the regiment until 1917, winning a [[Military Cross]] during the [[Battle of the Somme]]. In 1917 he transferred to the Indian Army and was attached to 4th / 39th Garwhal Rifles.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=30781|page=7952| date=5 July 1918}} modified by {{London Gazette|issue=31196|page=2626| date=21 February 1919}}</ref> He was later to join the 19th Hyderabad Regiment.

==Second World War==
In July 1940, Brigadier Lloyd was appointed to the 5th Indian Infantry Brigade of the [[4th Infantry Division (India)|4th Indian Infantry Division]] and commanded them in the [[Western Desert Campaign]], the [[East African Campaign (World War II)|East African Campaign]] and the [[Syria-Lebanon campaign]]. In the Western Desert, Lloyd's forces were involved in the opening stages of [[Operation Compass]]. In East Africa, forces under Lloyd's command were involved in the [[Battle of Agordat (World War II)|Battle of Agordat]] and the [[Battle of Keren]]. In Syria, he commanded for a period ''Gentforce''. This was a combined British, Indian, and [[Free French]] force attacking towards [[Damascus]]. He was awarded the [[Distinguished Service Order|DSO]] on 8 July 1941, followed by a Bar to the award on 28 August. For his services in the latter campaigns he was mentioned in despatches on 30 December 1941.

From October 1941 to March 1943, during the [[Burma Campaign]], Major-General Lloyd commanded the [[14th Indian Infantry Division]]. The Division was defeated during the [[Arakan Campaign 1942–43|First Arakan Offensive]] and Lloyd was removed from command. Most of his contemporaries nevertheless considered he was not responsible for the defeat.

From July 1943, in succession to [[William Slim, 1st Viscount Slim|William Slim]], to January 1944 Major-General Lloyd commanded the [[10th Indian Infantry Division]] in [[Persia]] and later in the [[Italian Campaign (World War II)|Italian Campaign]]. He was killed in an air crash in January 1944, aged 47, and was buried at [[Heliopolis War Cemetery]], [[Cairo]].<ref>[http://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/2209371/LLOYD,%20WILFRID%20LEWIS] CWGC Casualty record.</ref>

==Personal life==
Lloyd married in 1922 Phyllis Janet, younger daughter of John M.B. Turner, a solicitor, of [[Bournemouth]], England.<ref name=burkes /> The couple had two sons and two daughters, one of each survived them:

*Peter John Ernest, born 1923.
*Maureen Joan, born 1927, died 1943.
*David Owen Reginald, born 1931, died 1934.
*Patricia Jane, born 1938.<ref name=burkes />

After his death, his widow remarried, to Francis Arnold Benedict Jones.<ref name=burkes />

==Command history==
* General Staff Officer, Division - 1939
* CO [[5th Indian Infantry Brigade]], [[North Africa]] - 1940
* CO 5th Indian Infantry Brigade, [[East Africa]] - (1940–1941)
* CO 5th Indian Infantry Brigade, [[North Africa]] and [[Syria]] - 1941
* Director of Military Training, India - (1941–1942)
* GOC [[14th Indian Infantry Division]] - (1941–1943)
* GOC [[10th Indian Infantry Division]] - (1943–1944)

==References==
{{Reflist|30em}}

==Bibliography==
*{{cite book| first=Nick| last=Smart| title=Biographical Dictionary of British Generals of the Second World War| isbn=1844150496| year=2005| location=Barnesley| publisher=Pen & Sword}}

==External links==
* [http://www.britishmilitaryhistory.co.uk/webeasycms/hold/uploads/bmh_document_pdf/LLOYD_Major_General_Wilfrid_Lewis.pdf British Military History - Major General Wilfrid Lewis LLOYD]
*[http://www.generals.dk/general/Lloyd/Wilfrid_Lewis/Great_Britain.html Generals of World War II]
*[http://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/2209371 CWGC entry]

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