4th BATTALION - 36th BATTALION - 1st TRAINING BATTALION A.I.F.
Major: Edward Acton LLOYD. O.B.E. - M.I.D.
Born: 9th February 1891. Parramatta, New South Wales, Australia. Birth Cert:28229/1891.
Married: 1916. Woollahra, New South Wales, Australia. Marriage Cert:2224/1916.
Wife: Lenore Carleen Blaxland lloyd. nee: Rodd. (1895-10/04/1966) 22 Manning Road, Double Bay, N.S.W.
Died: 4th June 1969. Double Bay via Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Death Cert:21957/1969.
Father: Charles John Lloyd. (1859-1940)
Mother: Mildred Lloyd. nee:. (1863-1949) Died Chatswood, N.S.W. Death Cert:16555/1949.
INFORMATION
Edward Acton Lloyd served with the 25th Infantry with the rank of 2nd Lieutenant for 6 months and with the 26th Infantry for 18 months as a Lieutenant prior to World War 1 enlisted with C Company 4 Battalion AIF with the rank of 2nd Lieutenant on the 17th August 1914 and less than a fortnight later he was promoted to Lieutenant on the 27th August 1914.
Norman & Co Place made Australia: New South Wales, Sydney, Kensington Date made September 1914. Description Group portrait of officers of the 4th Battalion prior to embarkation. Identified from left to right, back row: Second Lieutenant (2nd Lt) John Dawson Christie from Sydney, NSW (later Lieutenant); 2nd Lt Percival Francis Vere Turner from Edgecliffe, NSW (later Lieutenant); 2nd Lt William Reginald Rogers French from Rose Bay, NSW; 2nd Lt Stanley Lyndall Milligan from Chatswood, NSW (later Lieutenant Colonel and awarded Order of St Michael and St George (CMG), Distinguished Service Order (DSO), and Mentioned in Dispatches (MID) five times); 2nd Lt Arthur McKellar Giles from Sydney (later Lieutenant and killed in action at Gallipoli on 8 August 1915); 2nd Lt Desmond Trench from Sydney (later Lieutenant); and 2nd Lt Frederick Fanning from Casino, NSW (later Captain, MID twice and died of wounds in France on 1 November 1916). Third row: 2nd Lt James Bloomfield Osborne from Paddington, NSW (later Captain and MID); 2nd Lt Bertie Vandeleur Stacy from Crossington, NSW (later Lieutenant Colonel and awarded CMG, DSO and Bar, and MID six times); 2nd Lt Edward Acton LLOYD from Rose Bay, NSW (later Major and MID); 2nd Lt James Sinclair Standish Anderson from Glen Innes, NSW (later Major and awarded DSO, Military Cross (MC), and MID three times); Lt Sherard Michael Becher from Strathfield, NSW; 2nd Lt Robert John Allwright MASSIE from North Sydney (later Lieutenant Colonel and awarded DSO, French Croix de Guerre (C de G) and MID three times); Lt Charles Athleston Chard from Sydney (resigned 3 April 1915); 2nd Lt Richard Thomas Francis Seldon from North Sydney (later Lieutenant and killed in action at Gallipoli on 8 August 1915); and 2nd Lt Arthur Roland Edwards from Sydney (later Major and MID). Second row: Major (Maj) David Andrew Storey from Sydney; Lt Hector Joseph Robert Clayton from Sydney (later Major and MID); Lt J T Simpson, possibly Lt Adam James Simpson from Hunter’s Hill (later Major); Lt Allen Humphrey Scott from Wahroonga, NSW (later Lieutenant Colonel, awarded DSO and MID three times and killed in action in Belgium on 1 October 1917); Maj Charles Melville Macnaghten from Sydney (later awarded CMG and MID); Lieutenant Colonel Astley John Onslow Thompson from Menangle, NSW (later MID and killed in action at Gallipoli on 26 April 1915); Captain (Capt) Iven Gifford Mackay from Raymond Terrace (later Brigadier General and awarded CMG, DSO and Bar, French C de G and MID five times); Capt Stewart Milson from Milson’s Point, NSW (later MID and killed in action at Gallipoli on 7 August 1915); Lt Jasper Kenneth Gordon Magee from Sydney (later Major and awarded MC and MID); Capt James Heane from Dubbo (later Brigadier General and awarded Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB), CMG, DSO, Belgian C de G, and MID five times); and Capt Charles Stanley Coltman from Sydney (later awarded MC and MID and died of disease in Egypt on 6 January 1916). Front row: Lt William Thomas McDonald from Forest Lodge, NSW (later Captain, MID and killed in action in France on 16 August 1916); 2nd Lt Muir Paul Smith from North Sydney (later Lieutenant, MID and killed in action at Gallipoli on 26 April 1915); Capt Arthur Hamilton Tebbutt from Quirindi, NSW (later Lieutenant Colonel and awarded DSO and MID twice); Lt David Richmond Brown from Katoomba, NSW (later Major and awarded MC and MID); and 2nd Lt Clarence Gordon Milne from Darlinghurst, NSW (later Captain).
The 4th Battalion embarked on the 20th October 1914 from Sydney on board HMAT A14 "Euripides". Between 18 & 29 October 1914 embarked 3rd Infantry Battalion (New South Wales) 1st Infantry Brigade, 4th Infantry Battalion (New South Wales) 1st Infantry Brigade, 1st Field Ambulance (New South Wales - Formed Sydney August 1914 ) First Division & six nurses at Sydney. 1st November 1914 HMAT A14 "Euripides" assembled with the first convoy at King George's Sound, Albany Western Australia in transporting the First Detachment of the Australian and New Zealand Imperial Expeditionary Forces.
HMAT A14 "EURIPIDES"
After a brief stop in Albany, Western Australia, the battalion proceeded to Egypt, arriving on 2nd December. Edward Acton LLOYD was appointed Officer Commanding No:4 Platoon A Company on the 1st January 1915. The Battalion took part in the ANZAC landing on 25 April 1915 as part of the second and third waves. The commander of the 4th Battalion, Lieutenant Colonel: A. J. O. Thompson, was killed the next day. At ANZAC, the Battalion took part in the defense of the beachhead and in August, along with the rest of the 1st Brigade, led the charge at Lone Pine. The battalion served at ANZAC until the evacuation in December.
4th Battalion War Diary Transcript.
24 April 1915. Lemnos
Left Mudros Harbour 12 noon, arrived anchorage north east side of Island, 7.0 pm.
25 April 1915. Kaba Tepe
Arrived at point about one mile north of Kaba Tepe. First shot fired from shore 4.50 am. First tow left Lake Michigan 6.45 am containing Beach Party, 1st Infantry Brigade Headquarters, Battalion Headquarters and Brigade Signal Section. 1.5 pm - Landing of 4th Battalion complete. 4.55 pm - Received orders. Prepare to move to support 8th Battalion on right of position. 6.45 pm - Took up position and extended line 224 R4 and north east corner of 224-R (Reference Map of Gallipoli, Sheet 2). Pressed hard most of night but held on. All companies in firing line and support and none in reserve. Approximately 60 casualties.
Weather - Calm clear day admirably suited for disembarkation. Sea chop calm.
26 April 1915
Battalion temporarily attached to 2nd Infantry Brigade. Day spent in improving fire trenches also supporting trenches and communication trenches. Snipers very troublesome all day. Good supplies of ammunition and water brought up during day. 4.30 pm - Got word for general advance evidently in error. Turks cleared from line of trenches in front, after which no orders as to movements could be obtained. Advance moving to left approximately one mile. Shrapnel fire opened on us, we were compelled to retire. Advance re-commenced but were mostly repulsed. A mixed party of approximately 200 men became isolated under Lieutenant Colonel Onslow Thompson at 7.0 pm. They were compelled to retire under heavy fire. Lieutenant Colonel Onslow Thompson was shot dead during retirement. Battalion eventually occupied its original position. Casualties estimated at approximately 150. Lieutenant MB Smith, Signalling Officer killed. His conduct was conspicuous having been wounded in the knee and left to return to trenches, he collected a number of men and almost succeeded in capturing a machine gun when he was killed by a sniper.
The following Officers were wounded severely. Major C S Macnaghten, Captain S Wilson. Seriously wounded Lieutenants PFV Turner and RJF Seldon.
Trenches kept under continuous fire from snipers the whole night. Defences assisted by Artillery on extreme right and HMS Bacchante, the latter illuminated the enemy's position by searchlight and gave considerable assistance with their guns.
Edward Acton LLOYD promoted to Captain on the 14th July 1915 in the field,
The Australian diversionary assault on 6 August 1915 on the Turkish trenches at Lone Pine was carried out by the four battalions - 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th - of the 1st Brigade, AIF, from New South Wales. The photograph shows men of the 3rd Battalion, at about 4 pm on 6 August, in Brown's Dip behind the Lone Pine plateau waiting to enter the front line trenches. Notice the white armbands and back patches. These were worn to make men more visible to each other in the dark. At 4.30 pm, by which time these men would probably have been in the trenches of the Pine, a bombardment of the Turkish positions began which lasted for one hour before the scheduled time of the attack - 5.30 pm. Charles Bean described the scene: through the Dip were now filing in three separate routes the 2nd, 3rd and 4th Battalions - the 1st Battalion was held in reserve which were to make the attack. The bright sun of a warm summer afternoon shone upon their backs ... Behind them, far down on the twinkling sea, lay the warships, firing occasional salvos. The three columns steadily disappearing into the dusty rabbit warren of trenches reminded onlookers of the regulated traffic of a metropolis ... When the bombardment was half through, the three assaulting columns were in position both in the tunneled firing line and in the main line behind it, ready to launch the formidable demonstration upon which so much depended. [Charles Bean, The Story of Anzac, Vol 2, Sydney, 1924, p502] [AWM G01124]
A view, supposedly looking back from the captured Turkish trenches at Lone Pine, taken in September 1915, well after the battle of 6-9 August 1915. Clearly, a lot of the dead still remain unburied which can be accounted for by the fact that it would have been too dangerous to go out, in full view of the enemy, to retrieve the bodies. It was in this area after the war that the Lone Pine cemetery and memorial were constructed. This photograph was given to the Australian War Memorial by Lieutenant Colonel Balcome Quick who, as Captain Balcombe Quick, a surgeon, sailed from Melbourne with the 2nd Field Ambulance on the troopship Wiltshire on 19 October 1914. This unit served at Anzac throughout the Gallipoli campaign. Sergeant Cyril Lawrence of the Australian Engineers wrote a description of the Lone Pine battlefield in his dairy: The whole way across is just one mass of dead bodies, bags of bombs, bales of sandbags, rifles, shovels and all the hundred and one things that had to be rushed across to the enemy trenches. The undergrowth has been cut down, like mown hay, simply stalks left standing, by the rifle fire, whilst the earth itself appears just as though one had taken a huge rake and scratched it all over. [The Gallipoli Diary of Sergeant Lawrence of the Australian Engineers, Sir Ronald East (ed), Melbourne 1983, pp 68-69]] [AWM C01727]
4th Battalions's WWI sacrifice totaled 1,287 men killed.
The men of the 1st Brigade faced the enemy at Lone Pine in trenches only 50 to 70 metres apart. The fighting was hand to hand, bayonet and bomb and man to man. Trench by trench the 1st Brigade fought and held, repelling counter attacks and not giving ground. After three days the area was littered with thousand of corpses and the Australians held the ground. The Brigade attacked with 2000 men but was reduced to 900. The Turks losses were estimated at over 5000. Seven Victoria Crosses were won at Lone Pine.
THE ATTACK ON THE LONE PINE TRENCHES
The most simple method of developing this complicated series of operations will be first to take the frontal attacks from the existing Anzac position, and afterwards to go on to the assault on the more distant ridges. During the 4th, 5th and 6th of August the works on the enemy's left and centre were subjected to a slow bombardment, and on the afternoon of August 6th an assault was made upon the formidable Lone Pine entrenchment. Although, in its essence, a diversion to draw the enemy's attention and reserves from the grand attack impending upon his right, yet, in itself, Lone Pine was a distinct step on the way across to Maidos. It commanded one of the main sources of the Turkish water supply, and was a work, or, rather, a series of works, for the safety of which the enemy had always evinced a certain nervousness. The attack was designed to heighten this impression.
The work consisted of a strong point d'appui on the south-western end of a plateau, where it confronted, at distances varying from 6o to 120 yards, the salient in the line of our trenches named by us the Pimple. The entrenchment was evidently very strong; it was entangled with wire and provided with overhead cover, and it was connected by numerous communication trenches with another point d'appui known as Johnston's Jolly on the north, as well as with two other works on the east and south. The frontage for attack amounted at most to some 220 yards, and the approaches lay open to heavy enfilade fire, both from the north and from the south.
The detailed scheme of attack was worked out with care and forethought by Major-General H. B. Walker, commanding 1st Australian Division, and his thoroughness contributed, I consider, largely to the success of the enterprise. The action commenced at 4.30 p.m. with a continuous and heavy bombardment of the Lone Pine and adjacent trenches, H.M.S. Bacchante assisting by searching the valleys to the north-east and east, and the Monitors by shelling the enemy's batteries south of Gaba Tepe. The assault had been entrusted to the 1st Australian Brigade (Brigadier-General N. M. Smyth), and punctually at 5.30 p.m. it was carried out by the 2nd, 3rd and 4th Australian Battalions, the 1st Battalion forming the Brigade reserve.
THE STORY OF ANZAC 6th August 1915.Thus a few men with Major: MORSHEAD were held up at a corner by some unseen party beyond it. One of them, believing that the opposing party was Australian, went forward to see. A moment later he returned. “They are Turks all right,” he said quietly, “ and they got me in the stomach.” After talking quietly for a few minutes he sat down and shortly after died in great pain. Similarly, when three men, who leapt in beside Captain Pain of the 2nd, pushed eagerly round a support trench on the right, three shots rang out, and they all fell dead. In the exact centre of the position Captain LLOYD of the 4th, whose men made farther to the left, rushed ahead by himself, and reached a point where a howitzer-shell had broken down the side of the open trench, rendering access to it easy. He looked down on a number of Turks, who scattered round the bend on either side as he jumped in. As they attempted to return, he watched first one side and then the other and shot several. Presently, realising that he had fired the last cartridge in his magazine, he dropped and feigned death. Turks brushed against him, passed over him, handled his rifle, but did not tread upon him. It was twenty minutes before he was turned over by a man of the 3rd Battalion and knew that the trench was in Australian hands.
While the northern flank of the 1st Brigade's foothold was thus secured by Mackay's Post at the northern end of the Traversed Trench, the southern end of that trench had also been entered by Australians near the centre of the old Turkish front. Captain LLOYD who had been forced to feign death until rescued by men of the 3rd Battalion, had pushed eastward along a communication trench which may be called "LLOYD'S TRENCH" At twenty yards from the old Turkish front line there branched from it diagonally to the left (or north-east) the Traversed Trench. Passing this by, LLOYD found that his trench soon veered north eastward also, leading in front of and almost parallel to the Traversed Trench, straight down the slope towards the Jolly. As the Turks on the Jolly could here see him from head to feet, LLOYD withdrew round the corner and blocked his trench at a point slightly in advance of its junction with the Traversed Trench. The latter was occupied by a garrison under Lieutenant Osborne of the 4th, and, extending from Mackay to LLOYD, formed a sort of front line covering the northern half of the captured position. South of this there ran across the new Australian position another diagonal sap-really a south-westerly continuation of that from which LLOYD had had to withdraw. This long north-easterly avenue afterwards known as "Sasse's Sap," formed eventually the centre line of the Australian position in the Pine.
THE COUNTER-ATTACK AT LONE PINEFarther south Major Iven Mackay of the 4th, holding the post at the north-eastern corner of the Australian position, had, as has been already mentioned, formed the opinion that the trench-junction which he was occupying was a mere death-trap, and had urged upon his colonel, Macnaghten, that it should be given up. Macnaughten, who had been wounded in the knee, was by this time himself exhausted, and eventually replied that Mackay must act on his own judgment. Mackay decided to withdraw only from the bay in which the losses were so heavy. To effect this he first caused each of the two intersecting trenches held by his men the long north flank trench and the Traversed Trench to be blocked. He himself remained in front in the dangerous bay, waiting, rifle in hand, for the appearance of any of the enemy, while Captain Scott‘ of the 4th and Lieutenant Howell-Price, adjutant of the 3rd organised the work on the new barricades. When they had blocked the Traversed Trench and partly blocked the other, all three withdrew to the latter and completed the barricade. Mackay next arranged that a short tunnel should be driven to connect the two trenches, which the new barricades had separated. Then, having fought for a night and a day in front of his men though twice wounded, he reported to Macnaghten, who sent him to have his wounds dressed.
When Mackay was arranging with Scott and Howell-Price to block the northern end of the Traversed Trench, some of the men in it complained that the barricade would cut off their only exit. He had thereupon walked along the trench and assured himself that it connected at the southern end also with the Australian line. It had in fact throughout the night connected Mackay’s post with LLOYD'S near the centre of the Pine, and at that stage it had appeared to form an important part of the Australian front. Shortly before dawn Colonel Brown of the 3rd Battalion, apprehending a counter-attack, had come along it from one end to the other, ordering the garrison to line the parapet, and in some places the parados. At LLOYD'S POST the Traversed Trench ended, but Brown had directed some of his men to climb out into the open beyond that post so as to continue the line across the depression between the high parapets of LLOYD'Sand Sasse’s. While clambering out in the dark they disturbed a few Turks, who, prohably in consequence of some similar order from their own commander, had been lying low, and who now scuttled back towards The Cup. At dawn the men whom Brown had sent into the open, glancing to their left rear, saw that they were completely open to the enemy’s trenches on the Jolly. Their annihilation being otherwise certain, they wisely climbed back into LLOYD'S POST.
During the night no attack whatever had been made on LLOYD'S or on the neighboring part of the Traversed Trench, but about 9 o’clock on the 7th a party of Turks, creeping up the open depression between LLOYD'S and Sasse’s began to throw bombs behind LLOYD'S barricade. As he had no bombs with which to reply, he sent except one non-commissioned officer. The two then took up their position at a prominent traverse. When a bomb fell on one side of it they ran round to the other, remaining until it had burst. In this manner they dodged the fusillade for two hours, until a supply of bombs at last arrived. The throwing of three or four into the depression completely silenced the enemy. The Australians at this post, as everywhere else in the Pine, were learning that bombs were the most powerful weapon for hand-to-hand trench fighting, and that-though they knew little of bomb-throwing and mistrusted the crude “ jam-tins" if they could obtain a constant supply, they could keep back the Turks. The chief danger at this stage of the fight appeared to be the obstruction of all supplies, not only by the dead and wounded clogging the trenches, but by the last companies of the 1st Battalion, under Colonel A. J. Bennett, and a third company of the 12th, which, in answer to appeals from over-anxious commanders, had been brought into the Pine and were hampering movement through the rear trenches.
It was this overcrowding which prevented the urgently needed bombs from reaching the front line. Accordingly, LLOYD, having made his way back to Colonel Macnaghten, obtained leave to clear the trenches of wounded. The waiting companies of the 1st Battalion and two of the 12th were also shortly afterwards withdrawn, leaving, however, those elements of three companies which since an early stage of the attack had been engaged in the thick of the fighting. When LLOYD, after clearing the wounded from his communication, returned to his post, he found that the enemy had attacked it heavily with bombs, seriously wounding Lieutenant Osborne, the officer in charge in the Traversed Trench, and driving back the troops from the junction of the two trenches. LLOYD led them back, but shortly afterwards, during his temporary absence, they were again heavily attacked. They thereupon retired, and constructed a low barricade farther back in LLOYD'S TRENCH, thus completely cutting off part of the garrison of the Traversed Trench, who knew nothing of the retirement.
At this juncture Captain Scott of the 4th was sent to the position by Macnaghten. Scott, who in private life was a clerk in Dalgety and Company’s Sydney office, was a cheerful and dashing soldier. He at once called to the men: “Who’ll come with me?”, and, leaping over the new barrier without the least knowledge or what was in front of him, ran straight past the junction of the ‘Traversed Trench to LLOYD'S old barricade. There he came upon a party of Turks busily throwing bombs over the barrier, which was about four feet high. He shot three or four, causing the rest to draw back round the bend of the trench. He then sent forward two of the men who had followed him, telling them to prevent these Turks from returning, while he himself and a third man threw bombs. The two guards performed this duty by standing at the bend, firing into the smoke of the bursting bombs. One was killed by a shot in reply, but another took his place. Meanwhile Scott continued to bomb, using miscellaneous ammunition, including improvised grenades made of eighteen pounder shell-cases filled with high explosive. The supply had to be thrown to him across the opening of the Traversed Trench, since its junction with LLOYD'S was now being rendered impassable by a machine-gun which was firing straight into it from the Jolly. The Turks continued to reply to Scott with bombs, until one of the improvised grenades burst among them, when their bombing ceased. While the struggle was at its height, Scott was surprised by an Australian creeping up to him out of the Traversed Trench. Learning for the first time that there were Australians in that trench, he ordered them to withdraw from it; but the first who attempted to creep past the junction was shot.
It had become clear to Scott that, since the Traversed Trench could not be held, neither could LLOYD'S advanced barricade. He therefore ordered the new barricade in LLOYD'S TRENCH to he built up. When it was ready, he and the men with him threw their rifles over it, those in the Traversed Trench doing the same. Then, leaping past the junction, they withdrew behind the barricade. The enemy’s machine-gun was not at that moment firing, and the withdrawal was effected without loss. This, by midday on August 7th the Traversed Trench had been given up, and the Australian front in the northern half of the Pine consisted of three sap-heads, which had been blocked by McDonald, Mackay, and LLOYD respectively. At each of these bombing continued intermittently until August 10th. but they were not again heavily attacked. On the Turkish side the Hoja Mufti of the 57th held his ground, as he had undertaken to do, until his battalion was relieved on August 9th, but the main counter-attack, during this and the following days, was entirely against the centre and southern half of the position.
Captain: Charles Edwin Woodrow BEAN Volume II page 508-538-540-41-42.
THE INVINCIBILITY OF THE AUSTRALIANS
Two lines left their trenches simultaneously, and were closely followed up by a third. The rush across the open was a regular race against death, which came in the shape of a hail of shell and rifle bullets from front and from either flank. But the Australians had firmly resolved to reach the enemy's trenches, and in this determination they became for the moment invincible. The barbed wire entanglement was reached and was surmounted. Then came a terrible moment, when it seemed as though it would be physically impossible to penetrate into the trenches. The overhead cover of stout pine beams resisted all individual efforts to move it, and the loopholes continued to spit fire. Groups of our men then bodily lifted up the beams and individual soldiers leaped down into the semi-darkened galleries amongst the Turks. By 5.47 pm the 3rd and 4th Battalions were well into the enemy's vitals, and a few minutes later the reserves of the 2nd Battalion advanced over their parados and driving out, killing, or capturing the occupants, made good the whole of the trenches. The reserve companies of the 3rd and 4th Battalions followed, and at 6.20 pm the 1st Battalion (in reserve) was launched to consolidate the position.
At once the Turks made it plain, as they have never ceased to do since, that they had no intention of acquiescing in the capture of this capital work. At 7 pm a determined and violent counter-attack began, both from the north and from the south. Wave upon wave the enemy swept forward with the bayonet. Here and there a well-directed salvo of bombs emptied a section of a trench, but whenever this occurred the gap was quickly filled by the initiative of the officers and the gallantry of the men.
Ottoman Empire: Turkey, Dardanelles, Gallipoli, Turkey. 1915-08-17. Informal group portrait of officers of the 4th Battalion celebrating the anniversary of the formation of the unit in their Battalion headquarters dugout. Left to right: Captain (later Major) Edward Acton Lloyd, Captain (later Lieutenant Colonel) Stanley Lyndall Milligan, Major (later Lieutenant Colonel) Alan Humphrey Scott, Captain Simpson, Chaplain Major William McKenzie, Lieutenant (later Captain) Allan Charles Chappell, Captain Parkinson (Medical Officer), Lieutenant (later Captain) Cecil Guildford Kimmorley Judge.
Judge, Cecil Guildford Kimmorley Collection.
Recommended for MILITARY CROSS
11th December 1915.
MENTIONED in DISPATCHES
Captain: Edward Acton LLOYD. 4th Battalion AIF. For good work and skill leading in the assault and subsequent defense of Lone Pine on the 6th and 7th June in taking Command of endangered portions of our Line during counter attacks by greatly superior numbers of the enemy.
General: Ian HAMILTON.
Commonwealth of Australia Gazette: 6 April 1916. Page 861, position 142
London Gazette: 28 January 1916. Page 1208, position 61
Captain: Edward Acton LLOYD
Captain Edward Acton LLOYD returned to Australia and was promoted to Major 1st May 1916 with the 36th Battalion AIF, Officer Commanding B Company. The 36th Battalion was raised at Broadmeadow Army Camp, in Newcastle, New South Wales in February 1916. The bulk of the Battalion's recruits had enlisted as a result of a recruiting drive conducted amongst the RIFLE CLUBS of New South Wales by the Minister of Public Information in the New South Wales Government, Ambrose CARMICHAEL. Thus the Battalion became known as "CARMICHAEL'S THOUSAND". Carmichael led by example and enlisted as well, serving in the Battalion as a Captain.
The 36th Battalion became part of the 9th Brigade of the 3rd Australian Division. The Brigade left Sydney, bound for the United Kingdom on the 13th of May 1916 on board HMAT A72 "Beltana" and disembarked at Devonport, England on the 9th of July 1916. The Battalion en trained to the Durrington Army Camp at Larkhill where the Battalion settled down to hard training, which included Route Marching, Trench Digging, Bomb Practice, Musketry and General Camp Routine and finished off their training, which included six days' Battle practice and field work at the Bustard Trenches.
The 36th Battalion proceeded overseas for France on the 22nd of November without Major Lloyd as he was transferred to the 4th Battalion AIF on the 25th November 1916 and remained in England.
From the 8th of June until the 18th August 1919, Edward was granted leave with pay to attend the British and American Tobacco Company at Milbank, London.
Returned to Australia on the 29th September 1919 onboard the "Osterley".
Edwards British War Medal:3992 and Victory Medal:3991 to CPT E A LLOYD 4 INF AIF were acquired from from a Medal Dealer in England in August 2015. Unfortunately the medals that I thought I had purchased were to a British Officer with the same initials and name. I have attached a photo of what his medal entitlements are.
Family Information
Edward was a single 23 year old Clerk from 59 Dover Road, Rose Bay, N.S.W. upon enlistment. Carleen Blaxland Lloyd was recorded as his next of kin C/O S T Rodd, Esq, President Hill, Gosford, New South Wales.His parents Charles and Mildred Lloyd were married and had 4 children. Mary E Lloyd born 1887 at Parramatta, N.S.W. Birth Cert:19237/1887. John Evans Freke Lloyd born 1889 at Tumut, N.S.W. Birth Cert:35049/1889 and died 1975 N.S.W. Death Cert:20016/1975. Edward Acton Lloyd born 1891 at Parramatta, N.S.W. Birth Cert:28229/1891 and died 1969 at Ryde, N.S.W. Death Cert:21957/1969. Walter Brown Lloyd born 1893 at Parramatta, N.S.W. Birth Cert:28922/1893.
Baptism Register. Walter Brown Llloyd. born 3rd March 1893.(Baptism Record; Graeme Rodgers. Queensland. October 2016)
Sydney Morning Herlald. Wednesday 15th January 1941.
COMPANY NEWS.
Messrs Frank Warren Brown and Edward Acton Lloyd have been elected directors of the British Tobacco Co (Australia.) Ltd., to all the vacancies caused by the retirement of Mesars. Arthur John Cozens and Walter Wilberforce Ryder Swinson.
Trove Article
British American Tobacco Co (Australia)W.D & H.O.Wills (Australia) Ltd began manufacturing tobacco products in 1913 at its Raleigh Park factory in Kensington, Sydney. At the time, the 35 acre site was considered to be quite rural but these days Kensington is regarded as one of the more central Sydney suburbs, located only 5 kilometres from the city centre. The site played host to a manufacturing facility for 72 years. In 1945 an estate of 16 acres was purchased at East Bentleigh, Melbourne, with a further 22 acres purchased later and the Virginia Park manufacturing branch was established. The 1950s were to be one of the most successful decades in the company’s history and it enjoyed a peak of 83 per cent market share in 1954. But this was also a period of increased competition as Phillip Morris and Rothmans entered the Australian tobacco market.
British American Tobacco Company, Australia.
Sydney University
Sydney Morning Herald. 24th March 1949.
VICE-REGAL
Their Excellencies the Governor General and Mrs. W. J. McKell, attended by Lieutenant D. H. D. Smyth, A.D.C., arrived in Grenfell, N.S.W., yesterday morning, where they were tendered a civic reception. His Excellency unveiled a photograph of Henry Lawson in the council chambers. Their Excellencies were the guests of the Mayor and the President of the Weddin Shire at luncheon. In the afternoon their Excellencies were present at the Grenfell Jockey Club race meeting, where his Excellency presented the trophy to the owner of the horse winning the Vice-Regal Handicap.
In the evening their Excellencies were present at the Grand Festival Week Ball. Their Excellencies will return to Canberra this morning. His Excellency the Governor received at Government House yesterday the Right Honourable the Viscount Leverhulme, Sir Harold and Lady Howitt, Mr. G. H. Rushworth, and Major E. A. Lloyd, Chief Commissioner for Boy Scouts, New South Wales.
Trove Article
CORONATION MEDAL. 1953
Approval By The Queen.
CANBERRA, Monday.— The Queen has approved the recommendation of the Commonwealth and State Governments for the award of the Coronation Medal to about 11,500 persons in Australia and the Australian goldfish colony. Queen Elisabeth instituted the medal in honour of her Coronation. Awards have been made to all sections of the Australian community.
About 2,900 medals were allotted by the Commonwealth, 3,350 by New South Wales, 2,300 by Victoria, 1,200 by Queensland, 750 by South Australia, 650 by Western Australia, and 350 by Tasmania.
Major; Edward Acton LLOYD. Boy Scouts Organisation in the State of New South Wales.
LIST OF CORONATION MEDAL AWARDS 1953. TROVE
Sydney Morning Herald. 2nd October 1953.
BOB A JOB WEEK FOR SCOUTSBoy Scouts and Wolf Cubs throughout New South Wales will take part in the third annual Bob-a Job Week, which starts next Saturday. All Scouts and Cubs will be issued with job cards, which will allow them to call on people and ask for work. They will ask a shilling payment for each job, The Chief Commissioner for New South Wales, Major E. A. Lloyd, said yesterday that 29,000 members of the Scout movement would be taking part in the Week. "The boys'will be prepared to tackle anything from gardening to "baby-minding," he said.
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QUEEN'S BIRTHDAY HONOURS LIST. 1957
United Kingdom and Colonies.
ORDER of the BRITISH EMPIRE (OBE) Civil DivisionEdward Acton LLOYD Chief Commissioner of the Boy Scouts Organisation in the State of New South Wales.
London Gazette: 4th June 1957. Page 3390.
1957 Birthday Honours
Military Records
Australian National Archives)
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2/9th BATTALION AIF. World War 2.
Lieutenant: Paul Acton LLOYD.
Born: 23rd November 1918. Richmond, England.
Died: 12th January 1943. Papua
Father: Major: Edward Acton LLOYD. CBE. MID.
Mother: Lenore Carleen Blaxland lloyd. nee: Rodd. (18..-10/04/1966) 22 Manning Road, Double Bay, N.S.W.
INFORMATION
Memorial of names for all those fallen soldiers buried at Bomana
LLOYD, Lieutenant, PAUL ACTON, NX103594. A.I.F. 2/9 Bn. Australian Infantry. 12th January 1943. Age 24. Son of Edward Acton Lloyd and Lenore Carleen Blaxland Lloyd, of Bellevue Hill, New South Wales. B5. C. 10.
Papua was the 2/9th's next battleground. It fought in the desperate defence of Milne Bay between 2 and 9 September and, between 18 and 24 December, in the gruelling and often ill-conceived slogging match that was the battle for Buna. The 2/9th's final engagement in Papua was at Sanananda between 12 and 24 January 1943. The horrendous impact of both the fighting and tropical diseases in Papua was evident in the 2/9th's casualty statistics. Prior to Buna it had numbered 666 all ranks. Despite receiving 300 reinforcements prior to Sanananda, only 89 remained standing when the battalion was withdrawn to Port Moresby in the first week of February 1943.
SOPUTA WAR CEMETERY
Family Information
Paul was a single Jackeroo, Wool classer upon enlistment. His parents Edward and Lenore Lloyd were married in 1916 at Woollahra, N.S.W. Marriage Cert:2224/1916. Paul was born in Richmond England as his parents where both living in England at the time due to Major Lloyd's military appointment as Commanding Officer of the 1st Training Battalion.
Military Records
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