136570 Pte Ellwood Gardiner Lloyd, 52nd Bn CEF.
A farmer from Aurora, Ontario, Elwood was born on 21 July 1894. Living in Toronto at the time of his enlistment, he enlisted into the 74th CEF on 22 November 1915 but he was transferred to the 52nd prior to embarking for overseas service in March 1916. Elwood served in the trenches from June 1916, and he was wounded in action on the Somme front whilst engaged on a working party detail on ‘Vancouver Trench', Courcelette on 6 October 1916. He was one of 12 other rank casualties this day (one of the others being his brother Percy D Lloyd who served with him in the same company and survived the war) and he was transferred to hospital at Boulogne. From there, he was evacuated to the UK where he was undergoing treatment at the Beaufort Military Hospital at Bristol when he died of his injuries on 29 November 1916. Elwood is now buried in Arno's Vale Cemetery, Bristol.
29 November 1916
Research by David O'Mara, Croonaert Research Services.
