Gerald Lloyd-Verney

Major-General Gerald Harry George Lloyd-Verney, (10 July 1900 – 3 April 1957) was a senior British Army officer who commanded the 7th Armoured Division ("The Desert Rats") during the Second World War. He changed his name by Deed poll from Gerald Lloyd Verney to Gerald Lloyd-Verney in 1941.

Early life Verney was the son of Sir Harry Lloyd Verney and Lady Joan Elizabeth Mary Cuffe. Educated at Eton College, Verney was Page of Honour to King George V between 1914 and 1917.

Military career Verney was commissioned into the Grenadier Guards in 1919. He became Aide-de-camp to the Governor of South Australia in 1928 and then, after attending the Staff College, Camberley from 1938 to 1939, transferred to the Irish Guards in 1939. He went on to be commander of the 1st Guards Brigade in Italy and Austria from 1944 to 1945 when he became Military Commander in Vienna. Bridget Mary Lloyd-Verney, who married Michael Barry Sarson, son of Captain Maurice John Sarson, on 20 October 1951 and had four children.

Lloyd-Verney died on 3 April 1957 at Enniskerry, Ireland, aged 56.