Leslie Lloyd
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Paddington, London, England
Basingstoke, Hampshire, England
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| Full name | Leslie Skipp Lloyd | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 24 June 1891 Paddington, London, England | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Died | 30 April 1966 (aged 74) Basingstoke, Hampshire, England | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Batting | Unknown | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bowling | Unknown | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 1924/25 | Europeans | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source: ESPNcricinfo, 30 November 2023 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Leslie Skipp Lloyd MC (24 June 1891 – 30 April 1966) was an English first-class cricketer and British Army officer. Lloyd served in the British Army with the Royal Hussars and the Dragoon Guards from 1913 to 1946, seeing action in both the First and the Second World Wars. At the point at which he retired, he held the rank of honorary brigadier. His military service took him to British India in the inter-war period, where he played first-class cricket for the Europeans cricket team.
The son of Francis Montagu Lloyd, he was born at Paddington in May 1876. He was educated at Clifton College, representing the college in boxing.[1] From there, he matriculated to Christ Church, Oxford. He represented Oxford University against Cambridge University in the featherweight varsity boxing match of 1911.[2] Whilst still at Oxford, Lloyd was commissioned into the British Army as a second lieutenant in the Territorial Force in March 1913.[3] He was later appointed to the 18th Royal Hussars in August of that year, with his appointment being antedated to January 1912.[4] Lloyd served in the First World War, gaining promotion to lieutenant around six months into the war.[5] In February 1917, he was made a temporary captain, a rank he relinquished the following month.[6] He had by this point been conferred the Military Cross.[7] Lloyd was wounded in action on 9 August 1918, at the start of the Hundred Days Offensive.[8]