Lloyd James Foley

Service number: 3052

Rank: Private

Unit: 7th Light Horse

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Source: National Archives of Australia

Lloyd Foley was born at Bodagara[?], NSW circa 1899. He was a farmhand.

He enlisted on 1 May 1917 aged 18, giving as next of kin his father Edward, at 24 Wentworth Street, Manly. He served with the 7th Light horse. He embarked on 10 May 1917, and served in the Middle East.

His service was punctuated by illness, including pyrexia, dysentery, tonsillitis, malaria, and two bouts of VD. He was court-martialled for theft from a comrade.

He returned to Australia on the Plassy on 20 September 1919.

Latterly he lived at Chatswood, and died at Turramurra on 27 May 1986.