The Jack Webb Collection of Medals and Militaria

Five: Private E. H. Lloyd, 1st City of London Rifle Volunteers and City of London Imperial Volunteers, later Captain, Royal Berkshire Regiment, who died of wounds on the Western Front on 2 April 1918

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 4 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Diamond Hill, Johannesburg (947 Pte. E. H. Lloyd, C.I.V.); King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (947 Pte. E. H. Lloyd C.I.V.) unofficially re-named; 1914-15 Star (12054 Sjt. E. H. Lloyd. R. Berks: R.); Victory Medal 1914-19 (Capt. E. H. Lloyd.); Territorial Force Efficiency Medal, E.VII.R. (6597 Pte. E. H. Lloyd 5/London Regt.) minor edge bruising to first, generally very fine or better (5) £300-£400

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Jack Webb Collection of Medals and Militaria.

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Ernest Henry Lloyd was born in 1878. Initially a clerk by occupation, he joined the 1st City of London Rifle Volunteers in 1895 and served in South Africa with the C.I.V. during the Boer War. Letters from Lloyd regarding ‘service life’ and ‘camp life’ were published in the City Press on 28 March 1900 and 2 May 1900 respectively. A further article in the City Press, 14 November 1900, reports on a dinner for 6 returning C.I.V.s (including Lloyd) employed by Sun Fire Insurance. Following the Boer War he served in the 5th (City of London) Battalion, London Regiment, advancing to Sergeant. After the outbreak of the Great War he served with Princess of Wales’s (Royal Berkshire Regiment) in France from 30 May 1915, being commissioned 2nd Lieutenant on 4 January 1916. He died of wounds while serving with the 5th Battalion on 2 April 1918 and is buried in St. Sever Cemetery, Rouen, France. His sister, Edith M. Lloyd applied for her brother’s medals on 18 November 1920, the contact address on the medal index card being c/o Capt. H. N. Lloyd, S. A. Police, P.O. Box 449, Pretoria.