-H.M.S. Hood Crew Information-
H.M.S. Crew List

It is estimated that as many as 18,000 men served aboard the 'Mighty Hood' during the operational portion of her 21 year career. Unfortunately, there is no surviving official single listing of ALL men who served in her. Here you will find our attempt at creating such a listing. We are using the few, fragmentary crew lists known to exist, Navy Lists, various official reports, public records, and most importantly of all, inputs from the families of former crew.

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Cecil Kingsley Lloyd

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Date of birth: 13th January 1889
Place of birth: Forest Hill, London, England
Parents: William John Lloyd and Alice Maud Lloyd
Wife: Phyllis Mary Dicksee
Previous occupation: Scholar
Service: Royal Navy
Rank: Paymaster Commander
Joined Hood: 1936 (Paymaster Commander)
Left Hood: 6th March 1938 (Paymaster Commander)






Biographical Information: Cecil Lloyd was Paymaster Commander in Hood for around two years from 1936 to 1938. This would have been a high-profile appointment, in which an officer could either succeed or fail spectacularly. In Lloyd's case his Hood time was clearly successful: he was promoted to Paymaster Captain just a year later. He was appointed CBE upon leaving the Royal Navy, as a Captain, in 1946.

Cecil Lloyd passed away in Hertfordshire on 18th March 1983, at the age of 94.



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Cecil and Phyllis Lloyd on their 50th wedding anniversary in 1970. Phyllis had been a noted opera singer in her youth.



Memorials
No known memorials


Sources
Commonwealth War Graves Commission
'Register of Deaths of Naval Ratings' (data extracted by Director of Naval Personnel (Disclosure Cell), Navy Command HQ, 2009)
Biographical details from:
www.unithistories.com
informant Lorraine 844 to the Imperial War Museum.
Photos from the records of the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company. All per RAdm S Lloyd, January 2023.