William Lloyd (British Army officer)

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William John Lloyd (2{{nbsp}}December 1778{{snd}}29{{nbsp}}July 1815) was a British Army officer wounded at the Battle of Waterloo on June{{nbsp}}18 1815.

He was the son of Major John Lloyd, of the 46th Regiment of Foot, who had been aide-de-camp to General Sir Henry Clinton during the American War of Independence, and Corbetta, daughter of the Venerable George Holcombe, Archdeacon of Carmarthen.{{sfn|Dalton|1904|page=224}}

Lloyd joined the Royal Artillery as a second-lieutenant on 6{{nbsp}}March 1795. He was promoted to first-lieutenant on 18{{nbsp}}June 1796; to captain-lieutenant on 12{{nbsp}}September 1803; to second-captain on 19{{nbsp}}July 1804; to captain on 22{{nbsp}}October 1806 and to brevet major on 4{{nbsp}}June 1814.{{sfn|Philippart|1820|page=261}}

After commanding his eponymous brigade at the Battle of Waterloo, Lloyd died in Brussels on 29{{nbsp}}July 1815 as a result of wounds received in the battle.{{sfn|Dalton|1904|page=224}}

His name is inscribed on a plaque to the dead of the artillery inside St. Joseph's Church in Waterloo.{{Cite web|title=The Waterloo Campaign: The British momuument|url=http://napoleon-monuments.eu/Napoleon1er/1815WaterlooEvere_EN.htm#1|access-date=12 October 2015}}

Lloyd is one of the soldiers commemorated on the British Waterloo Campaign Monument in Brussels Cemetery, although he was 37 at the time of his death, not 35 as inscribed.{{Sfn|Bromley|Bromley|2015|page=569}}