About Richard Eyre Lloyd
Lived 1906 – 1991 (aged 84–85). Richard Eyre Lloyd was a military leader.
Major-General Richard Eyre Lloyd, CB, CBE, DSO (7 December 1906 – 10 April 1991) was a British Army officer who served as Director of Military Intelligence.
Military career Lloyd was commissioned into the Royal Engineers. He served in the Second World War in North West Europe for which he was awarded the Distinguished Service Order.
After the War he became Assistant Chief of Staff, Intelligence for the British Army of the Rhine in February 1954, Chief of Staff for Middle East Land Forces in June 1957 and Director of Military Intelligence in August 1959 before retiring in June 1962.
He was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 1957 Birthday Honours and a Companion of the Order of the Bath in the 1959 Birthday Honours.
Personal life Lloyd married Gill Patterson, daughter of Rear-Admiral Julian Patterson, in September 1939. They lived in Germany, Cyprus and London before retiring to Lymington, Hampshire.
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Who was Richard Eyre Lloyd?
British Army general
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Richard Eyre Lloyd was born in 1906 in Bolarum.
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Richard Eyre Lloyd died in 1991.
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Richard Eyre Lloyd was a military leader.
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