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NB NAVY

THE ASSAULT LANDINGS IN NORMANDY
D DAY: MIDNIGHT JUNE 5 -- MIDNIGHT JUNE 6
acknowledged 12.6.58

What is your full name? Desmond Courtenay Frederick Lloyd
What is your present address? Dunesk Burwood Park Road
Walton-on -Thames Surrey

Telephone number : Walton-on-Thames 2826

What was your unit, division, corps? Royal Navy attached
to Royal Norwegian Navy (H.Nor.Ms. Suenner)

Where did you land and at what time?

What was your rank and age on June 6, 1944?
Ty. Lieutenant RNVR
age 25

Were you married at that time? yes
What is your wife's name? Ambrosine Wallace Lloyd

Did you have any children at that time? yes (one and one "expected")

When did you know that you were going to be part of the invasion?
appproximately 6 weeks beforehand

What was the trip like during the crossing of the Channel? Do you
remember, for example, any conversations you had or how you passed the time?
We set sail from Grenock and so were at sea for some
three or four days before the landings We did, in fact, have
to turn back when off Plymouth as 'D' day was postponed 24 hrs . We
passed the time in [crossed out][illegible][end crossed out] normal way on board ship- watch keeping practicing etc etc

Were there any rumours aboard ship? (Some people remember hearing that
the Germans had poured gasoline on the water and planned to set it afire
when the troops came in.)
none- the only rumours amongst the crew [crossed out][illegible][end crossed out]
were the possible landing points!

Did you by any chance keep a diary of what happened to you that day?
yes- but unfortunately it was lost when my ship
was torpedoed and [?sank?] at 6.30 am on 'D' day.