Grave of Henry Talbot Rickard Lloyd

Name: Henry Talbot Rickard Lloyd

Number: N/A

Rank: Captain

Unit: Royal Marine Light Infantry (H.M.S. Aurora)

Date of Death: 14 July 1900

Location: Tien-tsin

Country: China

Notes: Wounded in neck 27 June 1900 at Tien-tsin, China. Died from wound to neck 14 July 1900 at age 28 in Tien-tsin, China Born 10 Feb 1872 in Landsdown, Bath, Somerset, son of Arthur Rickard Lloyd and Marianne Jane Theodosia (Talbot) Lloyd. Brother of John Arthur Thomas Lloyd, Margaret Diana Lloyd and Arthur Eustace Lloyd As well as official records for Captain H. T.R. Lloyd who served with the Royal Marines from 1890 to his death in 1900 the Royal Marines Museum in Eastney, Hampshire holds two journals and personal correspondence. The author combines these different sources to detail a rare insight into how aspects of service affected the human and professional development of this young man including his state of mind within the wider context of the environment he lived in. Training at Portsmouth and life stationed in Bermuda, China, are touched upon and particular details of the Boxer Wars in China are given. The author concludes Captain Lloyd was not a happy man