211046 Pte. Harry Lloyd British Army 1/5th Btn. Cheshire Regiment from:Frodsham Harry Lloyd was wounded at Cambrai in November 1917 after going right through the war until then. He was a pioneer with 1/5th Cheshire Regiment. We have a copy of his regiment's war record with roll of honour in the back. It is very precious to us. He has written in the margins. It has trench maps and he marked were he was wounded. He was hit by shell fragments and coughed up a lump of shrapnel years later - I still have it in a glass phial. The three men with him were all killed. He lay in a trench left for dead until a retreating officer used him as a duckboard and he groaned out loud. He was picked up and run with, he was still holding a bacon sandwich in his hand the tendons were severed and his fist was clenched around it. He arrived back in Blighty on Christmas Eve and spent months in hospital before he recovered. The war was over by the time he did.
He was my Grandad and my hero
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