LIEUTENANT ALAN SCRIVENER LLOYD
ROYAL FIELD ARTILLERY
4TH AUGUST 1916 AGE 27
BURIED: DARTMOOR CEMETERY, BECORDEL-BECOURT, FRANCE
Lieutenant Lloyd was killed reconnecting the wire from his forward observation post, broken by a German bombardment. Some weeks after his death, Gunner John Manning, who had been with him when he died, placed a small hand-made, wooden sign on Lloyd's grave. On it he had written, "He died as he lived, brave and fearless, a true British hero". Lloyd' wife chose the first eight words for her husband's headstone inscription. The wooden sign is now part of the Imperial War Museum Collection, as are many of Lloyd's papers
Lloyd was a Quaker, educated at Leighton Park School and Trinity College, Cambridge. He fell out with his parents over his decision to enlist, but as he wrote in a letter to his father, "I'm the last person to be a jingo and hate flag wagging and Union Jack hurrahing etc but do feel that I might be useful, with my motor or without it, in case of attack by Germany and so I've offered my services.