Lloyd, Thomas Williams
Personal Information
Rank | S/L |
Forename(s) | Thomas Williams |
Surname | Lloyd |
Gender | M |
Age | 52 |
Decorations | DSO, Four times MiD, Royal Order of St. Sava 4th Class (Serbia, WWI) |
Date of Death | 13-02-1944 |
Next of Kin | Son of Walter Edmund and Annie Lloyd Lloyd. Husband of Alice Joan Lloyd. |
Aircraft Information
Aircraft | Avro Lancaster I |
Serial Number | DV382 |
Markings | KC-J J-Jug |
Memorial Information
Burial/Memorial Country | United Kingdom |
Burial/Memorial Place | Cheltenham Crematorium |
Grave Reference | Panel 1. |
Epitaph |
IBCC Memorial Information
Phase | 1 |
Panel Number | 64 |
Enlistment Information
Service Number | 84133 |
Service | Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve |
Group | 5 |
Squadron | 617 |
Trade | Intelligence Officer |
Country of Origin | United Kingdom |
Other Memorials
Location | Church of St. Mary the Virgin, Upwaltham, West Sussex |
Country | United Kingdom |
Memorial Type | Inscribed Stone Tablet |
Memorial Text | In memory of the crew of Lancaster DV382 which crashed after take off, 13th February 1944 |
Location | Rural Location, Waltham Down, West Sussex |
Country | United Kingdom |
Memorial Type | Brick Plinth and inscribed slate tablet |
Memorial Text | In memory of the crew of Lancaster DV382 which crashed after take off, 13th February 1944 |
Location | St. John the Baptist Church, Bamford, Derbyshire |
Country | United Kingdom |
Memorial Type | Framed painting and Framed inscribed Scroll |
Memorial Text | A painting given to Bamford Church by 617 Sqn RAF |
Location | South Tower, Ladybower Dam, Derbyshire |
Country | United Kingdom |
Memorial Type | Inscribed Stone Memorial & Inscribed Metal Plaque |
Memorial Text | Commemorating the raid on the Rhur Dams by 617 Sqn RAF in May 1943 |
Location | Adjacent to South Tower, Ladybower Dam, Derbyshire |
Country | United Kingdom |
Memorial Type | Information Board |
Memorial Text | An information board detailing the raid on the Rhur Dams by 617 Sqn RAF in May 1943 |
Location | St. Vincents Hall, Grantham, Lincolnshire |
Country | United Kingdom |
Memorial Type | Inscribed Stone Memorial & Metal Plaque |
Memorial Text | Commemorating the HQ of 5Gp Bomber Command 1937-1945 where the Rhur Dams raid by 617 Sqn RAF was controlled from |
Location | Thorpe Camp Museum, Tattershall Thorpe, Lincolnshire |
Country | United Kingdom |
Memorial Type | Stone Memorial and inscribed Sqn Badges |
Memorial Text | In memory of all who served at RAF Woodhall Spa 1941 - 1945 |
Location | Jubilee Gardens, Woodhall Spa, Lincolnshire |
Country | United Kingdom |
Memorial Type | Stone Memorial and inscribed slate tablets |
Memorial Text | A memorial to the members of 617 Sqn RAF who gave their lives during WW2 |
Location | Jubilee Gardens, Woodhall Spa, Lincolnshire |
Country | United Kingdom |
Memorial Type | Inscribed Marble Memorial |
Memorial Text | A memorial to the members of 617 Sqn RAF who have given their lives since 1945 |
Location | Eyebrook Reservoir, Caldecott, Rutland |
Country | United Kingdom |
Memorial Type | Inscribed Metal Plaque |
Memorial Text | Commemorating 617 Sqn RAF which practiced here before the Rhur Dams raid in May 1943 |
Miscellaneous Information
Mentioned in Despatches August 1917, October 1918, January 1943 and June 1944 |
Also received WWI Order of St. Slav (Serbia). He served with the 4th Battalion, King's Liverpool Regiment in France from March 1915, where he was wounded. Afterwards he was appointed Adjutant to a unit of 2,000 Royal Engineers at Liphook for six months, before he joined the mission that evacuated the Serbian Army from Albania to Salonika. He then spent a year in Mesopotamia as personal assistant to General Grey, who ran river transport, and worked out the scheme on which the advance to Baghdad was based. His subsequent award of the D.S.O. was gazetted June 1918 as a Captain (Acting Major), Liverpool Regiment, Special Reserve, employed Royal Engineers. Towards the end of the war he was transferred to Italy for service in transportation and, after the Armistice, was one of a mission of three officers sent by the War Office to report on communications in Hungary and the Adriatic Ports. |
He was 617 Squadron's Intelligence Officer and is mentioned in Guy Gibson's "Enemy Coast Ahead". His DSO was promulgated in the London Gazette on 3 June 1918 and reads: "Hie Majesty the KING has been graciously pleased, on the occasion of His Majesty's Birthday, to approve of the undermentioned rewards for distinguished services rendered with the British Forces on the Mediterranean Line of Communications. Dated 3rd June, 1918: — ...... AWARDED THE DISTINGUISHED SERVICE ORDER. Capt. (A./Maj.) Thomas Williams Lloyd, L'pool R., Spec. Res., Empld. R.E. |
Commonwealth War Graves Commission
The National Archives
Record of Events (Operational Record Book) AIR 27/2131/4 |
Summary of Events (Operational Record Book) AIR 27/2128/13 |
Fellow Servicemen
Last Operation Information
Start Date | 13-02-1944 |
End Date | 13-02-1944 |
Takeoff Station | Ford |
Day/Night Raid | Day |
Operation | Transit |
Reason for Loss | The Lancaster landed at Ford, Hampshire on return from the Anthéor Viaduct attack and shortly after it took off again for Lincolnshire it crashed at Waltham Down, near Chichester. Lloyd had been offered a lift after attending Ford to debreif the returning crews. |