27 MARCH 1926, Page 10

Mr. Lloyd was severely wounded by a shell at Ypres

in March, 1918. After being discharged from hospital, he took his degree at Cambridge in engineering and also read law and economics. On behalf of the large British engineering firm whom he has served for six years he spent a year on the • Continent, 'studying designs and methods of manufacture of mechanical and electrical machinery. He has also spent a year in the EaSt as representative of his firm. His duties. once took. him on a special mission to. Tibet and lie accompanied the Mount Everest Expedition under General Bruce in 1924. After leaving the expedition in Tibet, accompanied only by his coolies he proceeded to Sikkim, having to climb a 15,000 feet pass in the Himalayas without a guide.

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