William John Lloyd (2December 177829July 1815) was a British Army officer wounded at the Battle of Waterloo on June18 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.
Lloyd joined the Royal Artillery as a second-lieutenant on 6March 1795. He was promoted to first-lieutenant on 18June 1796; to captain-lieutenant on 12September 1803; to second-captain on 19July 1804; to captain on 22October 1806 and to brevet major on 4June 1814.
After commanding his eponymous brigade at the Battle of Waterloo, Lloyd died in Brussels on 29July 1815 as a result of wounds received in the battle.
His name is inscribed on a plaque to the dead of the artillery inside St. Joseph's Church in Waterloo.[1]
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.