Service Details
- Branch of Service
- Army
- Conflict
- World War II (1939-1945)
- Date of Enlistment
- 28/11/1941
- Place of Enlistment
- Canberra ACT
Personal Details
- Gender
- Male
- Date of Birth
- 09/10/1922
- Place of Birth
- Bowral NSW
- Address (at enlistment)
- Fyshwick (Pialligo) ACT
- School(s) Attended
- Duntroon Primary School, Telopea Park Intermediate High School [original Canberra High School]
- Occupation
- Market gardener, Fyshwick
- Next of Kin
- Fourth son of William and Mary Albina Lloyd. William was a market gardener at Federal Gardens, Fyshwick ACT, and his son worked for him there. Brother of William, Jack, David, Ron, Leila, and Gwen.
- Burial Place
Port Moresby (Bomana) War Cemetery, Papua-New Guinea: grave C7. B. 14.
Unit and Rank Details
- Service Number
- N243349
- Final Rank
- Private
- Final Unit
- 3 Infantry Battalion
Fate
Died 11 October 1942 aged 20 years, Kokoda Track, Papua.
Commemoration
AWM Roll of Honour, Canberra ACT: Panel 64.
Canberra High School Memorial Tablet
St John the Baptist Anglican Church, Reid, Book of Remembrance of Canberra parishioners who died in the war of 1939-45, in recess in south wall of nave.
Notes
Lloyd was born at Burrawang near Bowral. He served with the 3rd Infantry Battalion (a militia unit also known as the Werriwa Regiment) and arrived in Port Moresby in May 1942. On 5 September 1942 they entered the Kokoda Track and took part in the Australian defence at Imita Ridge and Ioribaiwa. Thereafter 3 Battalion patrolled forward through Menari, Efogi and Kagi towards Templetons Crossing.
Lloyd was a forward scout on a patrol that left Efogi on 9 October 1942 probing for the Japanese along the track to Kagi and Templetons Crossing. On the afternoon of 11 October 1942 the patrol met the Japanese between Kagi and Templetons Crossing and during the ensuing fire fight Lloyd and another 3rd Battalion soldier were killed. His 20th birthday was on 9 October and his last letter home spoke of how he was looking forward to the birthday cake his parents had sent him.
Sources
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The Canberra Times - 7 November 1942 (p.2)
ACT Electoral Roll - 1941
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Colin Kennedy, 'Port Moresby to Gona Beach. 3rd Australian Infantry Battalion 1942', 1992
Lex McAulay, 'Blood and Iron', 1991
Dudley McCarthy, 'South-west Pacific area - first year : Kokoda to Wau', AWM, 1959 (p.271)
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