A Great War ‘Palestine’ M.C. group of five awarded to Chaplain to the Forces Fourth Class The Reverend H. T. Lloyd, Army Chaplain’s Department, attached 158th Brigade, 53rd (Welsh) Division, who was awarded the Military Cross and twice Mentioned in Despatches for Egypt and Palestine

Military Cross, G.V.R., the reverse privately engraved ‘Rev. H. T. Lloyd, M.A. C.F. Palestine 1917’; 1914-15 Star (Rev. H. T. Lloyd. A.C.D.); British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaves (Rev. H. T. Lloyd.); Defence Medal, mounted as worn, a few verdigris traces to 1914-15 Star, otherwise very fine and better (5) £1,000-£1,400

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The David Laban Collection of Great War Awards.

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M.C. London Gazette 1 January 1918.

M.I.D. London Gazettes 13 July 1916 and 12 January 1918.

The Reverend Herbert Thomas Lloyd was born in 1871 and was educated at Exeter College, Oxford. Ordained Deacon in 1898, and Priest in 1899, he served as Curate of St. Matthews, Leicester from 1898 to 1900; Froxfield, Hampshire from 1901 to 1905; Firles with Beddingham from 1905 to 1909; and was Rector of Croydon with Clapton from 1909. He was appointed Temporary Chaplain to the Forces Fourth Class on 24 June 1915, and served during the Great War as Chaplain with 158th Brigade in the 58th Welsh Division in the Egyptian theatre of War from 29 July 1915. For his services in Egypt and Palestine he was twice Mentioned in Despatches and was awarded the Military Cross, and conducted the first celebration of the Holy Communion at St. George’s Collegiate Church after the capture of Jerusalem. Following the Great War he remained as Rector of Croydon with Clapton, residing at the Croydon Rectory, Royston, Hertfordshire, and changed his name by Deed Poll to Lloyd-Johnes in order to inherit the the Dolacothi Estate, Carmarthen, which had belonged to his cousin, General Sir James Hills-Johnes, V.C., G.C.B. He died in Brighton in 1958.

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