Virtual
War Memorial
Australia

George Lloyde was a WW1 veteran, his daughter Kathleen Michel described how he and his comrades felt as they left for Egypt in 1917. He said it was like ‘young fellas going for an adventure’. Lloyd saw action with the 9th Light Horse Regiment in Palestine and the Jordon Valley in 1917-18. The regiment was sent to Damascus before the Turks surrendered on October 31, 1918. Mrs Michel says her father was in a hospital at Port Said, Egypt with a bout of malaria during the attack on Beersheba. While waiting to embark for home, the 9th Light Hose was called back to quell the Egyptian revolt that erupted in March 1919. Mrs Michel of Hackham says the regiment eventually sailed for home on July 10th 1919, without her father, who was again in hospital with malaria. He was eventually sent home on September 22, 1919. He said little about the war, but did say he saw some very horrific things over there. He used to chuckle about Bush Biscuits being so hard a man couldn’t break them with his rifle butt. Lloyd moved to Pinnaroo where he farmed a ‘solders settlement’ block after his return from Egypt. It was there that he met his wife Edna, The couple moved to Reynella in 1945 with eight children and started a dairy farm.