Sir Guy Lloyd, 1st Baronet (1890-1987), another future British Army officer and Member of Parliament, was his elder brother.

[1] Lloyd was commissioned into the 7th (Service) Battalion of the King's Shropshire Light Infantry in September 1914, arrived in France in October 1915, and fought with the regiment until 1917, winning a Military Cross during the Battle of the Somme.

From July 1943, in succession to William Slim, to January 1944 Major-General Lloyd commanded the 10th Indian Infantry Division in Persia and later in the Italian Campaign.

He was killed in an air crash in January 1944, aged 47, and was buried at Heliopolis War Cemetery, Cairo.

[1] The couple had two sons and two daughters, one of each survived them: After his death, his widow remarried, to Francis Arnold Benedict Jones.