Pte 32696 George Forsyth Lloyd

• Age: 30
• From: Liverpool
• Regiment: The King's (Liverpool Regiment) 19th Btn
• K.I.A Friday 22nd March 1918
• Commemorated at: Savy Brit Cem
  Panel Ref: Roupy Rd. Mem. 60

George Forsyth Lloyd was born 24th August 1887 in Liverpool and was baptised 25th March 1900 at St Michael's Church, Liverpool. He was the son of Robert Lloyd and his wife Catherine or Kate as per her baptismal record (nee Lumsden). His parents were married in 1875 at St Giles' Church in Edinburgh. 

The 1891 Census shows the family living at 35 Strasburgh Street, Salford. His father Robert is aged 40, born 1851 in Liverpool, is a printer machine man, his mother, Catherine is aged 38, born 1853 in Edinburgh and has no occupation listed.  They have five children at the time of the Census; Robert aged 14, born 1877 is a clerk, Catherine aged 12, born 1879 were both born in Edinburgh, Elizabeth Ann aged 7, born 1884, George aged 4, born 1887 and Jennie aged 1, born 1890 were all born in Salford.

The 1911 Census shows George as a lodger with the Horton family at 71 Oliver St Falkner St Liverpool. The head of the household is John Horton aged 39, born 1872 who is a dock labourer and was born in Crewe. His wife Jane aged 36 with no occupation listed was born in Liverpool as were their two daughters, Theresa aged 5, born 1906 and Jane aged 3, born 1898. George is 24 and employed as a clerk for a stevedore company.

On the 1911 census his father Robert is lodging at 58-60 Collyhurst Road, Manchester. He is a widower, aged 61 b.Liverpool with occupation calico printer.

George married Mary Catherine Atkin on the 26th September 1917 at St Nathaniel's Church, Liverpool, he was a 30 year old book keeper of 71 Oliver Street, Catherine was a 28 year old shop assistant of 62 Oliver Street. 

He enlisted in Liverpool and was serving in the 19^th Battalion, The King’s Liverpool Regiment as Private No 32696, aged 30, when he was killed in action on the 22^nd March 1918 during the German Spring Offensive. 

22^nd  GERMAINE – HAM- MOYENCOURT

The battalion moved up accordingly being in position at 6:30 a.m. About 3pm the enemy attacked the left of our position and advanced on our left flank towards FLUQUIERES. At 4:30 pm an attack was launched on our front and the enemy forced his way through on our right. The remainder of the Battalion was forced to retire to south of FLUQUIERES. During this engagement the Battalion lost 11 Officers and About 21 O.R. The order was given to retire to the defences at HAM. The Battalion by this time was very weak, and passing through the 20^th Division took up positions in HAM, as ordered, getting into position at 2am.

Savy was taken by the 32nd Division on the 1st April 1917, after hard fighting, and Savy Wood on the 2nd. On the 21st March 1918 Savy and Roupy were successfully defended by the 30th Division, but the line was withdrawn after nightfall. The village and the wood were retaken on the 17th September 1918 by the 34th French Division, fighting on the right of the British IX Corps.

Savy British Cemetery was made in 1919, and the graves from the battlefields and from the following small cemeteries in the neighbourhood were concentrated into it.

There are now over 850, 1914-18 war casualties commemorated in this site. Of these, more than half are unidentified. Memorials are erected in the cemetery to 68 soldiers (chiefly of the 19th King's Liverpools and the 17th Manchesters), buried by the Germans in their cemetery on the St. Quentin-Roupy road, whose graves were destroyed by shell fire.

The Cemetery covers an area of 2,555 square metres and is enclosed by a low rubble wall.

The inscription on George's headstone reads:

"LOVED BY ALL" 

He was reported as Missing in the Weekly Casualty List on 04th June 1918

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