Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Six: Chief Petty Officer W. Lloyd, Royal Navy

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, no clasp (W. Lloyd, A.B., H.M.S. Magicienne); Africa General Service 1902-56, 1 clasp, Jubaland (W. Lloyd, A.B., H.M.S. Magicienne); 1914-15 Star (185052 W. Lloyd, P.O., R.N.); British War Medal 1914-20, naming erased; Victory Medal 1914-19 (185052 W. Lloyd, C.P.O., R.N.); Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 1st issue (185052 William Lloyd, P.O., H.M.S. Vivid), the earlier awards with occasional edge bruise and contact marks, nearly very fine or better (6) £350-400

William Lloyd was born in Bridgewater, Somerset, in June 1879, and entered the Royal Navy as a Boy 2nd Class in September 1895. Joining H.M.S. Magicienne as an Ordinary Seaman in November 1897, he went on to witness active service off South Africa (Medal), in addition to being one of around 200 Bluejackets landed for the Jubaland operations of November 1900 to April 1901 (Medal & clasp). A Petty Officer serving aboard the destroyer Roebuck on the outbreak of hostilities in August 1914, he removed to the accommodation ship Redpole in August 1915, and remained similarly employed until the War’s end. Awarded his L.S. & G.C. Medal in February 1915, and advanced to Chief Petty Officer in November 1918, he came ashore for a final time in July 1919.

Sold with an envelope, addressed to Miss Bessie Lloyd, and date stamped 23 November 1918, containing an old newspaper cutting describing the survival of a man by the name of Lloyd after getting lost in the Australian outback, together with copied service record.