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, who had been '' aide-de-camp'' to General Sir Henry Clinton during the

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, and Corbetta, daughter of the Venerable George Holcombe, Archdeacon of Carmarthen. Lloyd joined the Royal Artillery as a second-lieutenant on 6March 1795. He was promoted to first-lieutenant on 18June 1796; to captain-lieutenant on 12September 1803; to second-captain on 19July 1804; to captain on 22October 1806 and to

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major on 4June 1814. After commanding his eponymous brigade at the Battle of Waterloo, Lloyd died in Brussels on 29July 1815 as a result of wounds received in the battle. His name is inscribed on a plaque to the dead of the artillery inside St. Joseph's Church in Waterloo. Lloyd is one of the soldiers commemorated on the British Waterloo Campaign Monument in

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, although he was 37 at the time of his death, not 35 as inscribed.

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;Bibliography * * * 1778 births 1815 deaths British Army personnel of the Napoleonic Wars Royal Artillery officers British military personnel killed in action in the Napoleonic Wars People of the Battle of Waterloo {{British-Army-bio-stub