BAGGS, Lloyd Malcolm
| Service Number: | S5805 |
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| Enlisted: | 2 July 1941 |
| Last Rank: | Chief Petty Officer |
| Last Unit: | Not yet discovered |
| Born: | Guildford, New South Wales, Australia, 12 August 1917 |
| Home Town: | Sydney, City of Sydney, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Toolmaker |
| Died: | Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, 26 November 1972, aged 55 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Woronora Memorial Park, Sutherland, New South Wales The New South Wales Garden of Remembrance |
| Memorials: |
World War 2 Service
| 2 Jul 1941: | Enlisted Royal Australian Navy, Chief Petty Officer, S5805 | |
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| 21 Mar 1946: | Discharged Royal Australian Navy, Chief Petty Officer, S5805 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Engine Room Artificer (ERA) III Lloyd Malcolm Jones enlisted in the Royal Australian Naval Reserve (RANR) on 21 July 1941 as an ERA IV. He served on HMAS Rushcutter, Cerberus, Nestor and Napier and was Chief Petty Officer on HMAS Nizam when he was awarded the Mention in Despatches for "Distinguished service during the War in the Pacific' (AWM). ERA III Baggs was attached to the Naval Wing when he was Discharged on 21 March 1946.
Born in 1917 at Guildford in Sydney NSW, Lloyd was the sixth of eight children of Alexander John Baggs (b1879 at Cooma, NSW) and Ada Florence Kelly (b1885 at Nowra, NSW). Alexander (a Salesman) and Ada married in 1906 in Sydney NSW where they settled and raised their family. Alexander worked as a Salesman, and was a working as a Cleaner in 1942 when he was killed in a Factory fire in Sydney.
Lloyd worked as a Toolmaker in Sydney before enlisting in the RANR and in 1945 in Sydney NSW he married Mabel Myers (b1918 in Sydney, NSW). Lloyd and Mabel lived in Orange and Sydney where they raised their family and Lloyd was a Toolmaker. Lloyd died in 1972 and Mabel in 2014.