LLOYD, George Maxwell
Service Number: | TX3571 |
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Enlisted: | 24 June 1940 |
Last Rank: | Corporal |
Last Unit: | 2nd/40th Infantry Battalion |
Born: | Ulverstone, Tasmania, Australia, 25 May 1908 |
Home Town: | Launceston, Launceston, Tasmania |
Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
Occupation: | Bank Clerk |
Died: | Launceston, Tasmania, Australia, 25 July 1986, aged 78 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
Cemetery: |
Carr Villa Memorial Park, Tasmania https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/212891113/george-maxwell-lloyd |
Memorials: | Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial |
World War 2 Service
24 Jun 1940: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Corporal, TX3571, 2nd/40th Infantry Battalion | |
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8 Dec 1941: | Embarked Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Corporal, TX3571, 2nd/40th Infantry Battalion, ex Darwin to Koepang | |
25 Apr 1942: | Imprisoned Saigon Camp | |
11 Oct 1945: | Embarked Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Corporal, TX3571, 2nd/40th Infantry Battalion, ex Singapore to Sydney per Highland Chieftan | |
10 Dec 1945: | Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Corporal, TX3571, 2nd/40th Infantry Battalion |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Corporal George Maxwell LLoyd (Service No:TX3571) enlisted in the Australian Army on 20 June 1940 and was attached to 2/40th Battalion when he was Discharged on 10 December 1945. Corporal Lloyd was a PoW.
Born in 1908 in Ulverstone Tasmania, Max was the sixth of nine children of George Frederick Norman Lloyd (b1872 in Campbell Town, Tasmania) and Sarah Hannah Heazlewood (b1873 at Port Sorrell, Tasmania). George (a Builder) and Sarah married in 1898 in Ulverstone where they settled and raised their family and George worked as a Builder and Bricklayer.
Max was a Bank Clerk in Launceston in 1932 when he married Katherine (Kitty) Ethel McKenna (b1900 in Ulverstone, Tasmania). Max and Kitty settled in Launceston where Max was a Bank Clerk/Officer. Max died in 1986 and Kitty in 1994.