Cyril Lloyd

Major-General Cyril Lloyd (14 April 1906 – 27 July 1989) was a senior British Army officer who served during the Second World War. Military career Educated at Brighton Grammar School and the University of Cambridge, Lloyd was commissioned into the Royal Artillery on 25 December 1929. Posted to 57th Field Regiment Royal Artillery, he was promoted to lieutenant on 25 December 1932 and to captain on 8 March 1935. He then attended the Territorial Army officers course at Staff College, Camberley in 1939. Lloyd saw action as a staff officer with the temporary rank of major serving with 12th (Eastern) Infantry Division as part of the British Expeditionary Force in France at the start of the Second World War. He was mentioned in dispatches and evacuated out from Cherbourg in June 1940. Lloyd became Deputy Assistant Adjutant General to the General Staff of the Canadian Forces in July 1940 in which role he was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in the 1943 New Year Honours. He became Assistant Director of Military Survey at the War Office in October 1943 and, after being promoted to temporary lieutenant-colonel on 27 January 1944, he became Deputy Chief of Staff for 21st Army Group in April 1944. In this role he took part in the Normandy landings for which he was advanced to Commander of the Order of the British Empire.