4209536 CORPORAL ANTHONY BERTRAM LLOYD

Corporal Anthony Lloyd was the son of Bertram Harold and Ada Lloyd from Penarth in Wales. He enlisted in the Royal Welsh Fusiliers before joining the Parachute Regiment. He served in North Africa where he was awarded the Military Medal for gallantry, and then fought in Sicily and Italy. He returned to the UK in early 1944 and was presented with his medal at Buckingham Place. Anthony fought at Arnhem and was badly wounded, before being taken to the Regimental Aid Post at Kate ter Horst’s house. Kate had watched with joy as the airborne troops arrive on 17 September but had then spent the following days helping the constant stream of wounded who were brought to her home. She soon became known as the ‘Angel of Arnhem’. Injured soldiers crowded into her house but with supplies exhausted, there was little that she or medical staff could do. Anthony was one of many that were too badly wounded to be taken across the river on the night of 25 September, and as dawn broke on the 26th, German soldiers moved in and captured those who had been left behind. Sadly, before German doctors could help him, Anthony succumbed to his wounds. He was buried in the garden of Kate’s house alongside 56 others who had died there. In August 1945 he was laid to rest in Plot 3. Row A. Grave 19 of Arnhem Oosterbeek War Cemetery.