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Accession Number

NAM.2012-04-13-15

Description

Letter to Col Richard Thomas Lloyd from his son Francis Lloyd, Grenadier Guards and Guards Brigade, ‘The Club’, Alexandria, 30 Jun 1885. States he or his unit (the Guards Brigade) is leaving for ‘Cyprus tomorrow, for how long we do not know’, on his return from the Suakin campaign (on which he had served as the Brigade’s Signalling Officer). Addressed to Richard Lloyd at Aston Hall. From a group of 52 letters, photographs and papers associated with Francis Lloyd and Mary Lloyd, 1881-1901. Associated with 1st Sudan War (1884-1885).

Campaigns

1st Sudan War (1883-1885)