127 The Royal Canadian Legion www.mbnwo.legion.ca LLOYD, Frank WWI Frank enlisted in the Army Medical Corps in Winnipeg and joined the 3rd Field Ambulance 1st Division in January 1917. He went overseas in April 1917 and was stationed in Folkstone, England, France near Vimy Ridge, and Belgium. Frank was wounded in the hip at Passchendaele on November 6, 1917. Two weeks later, he was sent to a hospital in Manchester, England. He was in bed for six months, wheelchair, crutches, cane, then convalescent at Epsom Downs, Folkstone, Bexhill, Basingstoke, etc. for the balance of the year. Then, he was attached to the Basingstoke Hospital on light duty until the return to Canada in 1919. He was discharged in Winnipeg in July 1919 and spent the winter in hospital in Winnipeg. Later, he went to Lethbridge, Alberta; Vancouver, and on to San Francisco in 1926 where he and another Canadian operated a brake shop. He joined the US Army in November 1942. He was discharged in April 1943. He could not stand the training because of the hip injury from the first war. LLOYD, Richard Hamilton WWI Richard was born on January 22, 1896, in Neepawa. After being turned down trying to gain admission to the ranks in November 1916 and again in 1917, he sailed for England with the 1st Depot Battalion on February 12, 1918, after one month of training in Brandon. He reached France with the 16th Canadian Scottish on September 5 and was later transferred to the 78th Battalion. Private Richard Lloyd was killed in action near Cambrai on September 27, 1918, during the big advance that date. LOBB, Preston WWI Preston was born in Gladstone, Manitoba on November 5, 1892. He served in the Army from 1914 to 1918 as a Bombardier with 1st Battalion, Artillery Corps. He returned to Gladstone in 1919 and bought a farm from 1920 to 1946. Preston married Elsie Kowalski in 1920. He was a Mason and a member of The Royal Canadian Legion. He moved to Rivers, Manitoba in 1948 and was postmaster in Gladstone. Preston passed away on June 22, 1970, and is buried in Rivers Cemetery in Manitoba.
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