Lloyd Williams was born in Oswestry, Shropshire, one of 11 children born to John Jordan Lloyd Williams, then headmaster of Oswestry School, and his wife Ellen Augusta Crawley. His grandfather was the ReverendEvan Williams, vicar of Nantcwnlle, Wales. He was educated at Oswestry and Ruthin Schools, and from the age of seventeen he worked in the office of his uncle, Hugh Vincent, a solicitor, in Bangor. In 1919, his widowed mother, with the assistance of several of her daughters, founded Moreton Hall School in Oswestry.
Lloyd Williams was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the Denbighshire Hussars, a Yeomanry cavalry unit of the Territorial Force, on 17 July 1913. On the outbreak of war the 1st Battalion, Denbighshire Hussars, were mobilized as part of the Welsh Border Mounted Brigade. In November 1915 they were converted to infantry, and in March 1916 were sent to Egypt to form part of the 4th Dismounted Brigade. In August 1917 Lloyd Williams was attached to No. 111 SquadronRoyal Flying Corps in Palestine to serve as an observer/gunner in Bristol F.2b two-seater fighters. Between 8 October and 8 November 1917 he was credited with three enemy aircraft destroyed and two captured, two with pilot Second Lieutenant R. C. Steele, and three with Captain Arthur Peck. He was awarded the Military Cross on 17 December 1917, which was gazetted on 19 April 1918. His citation read: Lloyd Williams then trained as a pilot, being appointed a flying officer on 30 March 1918.
List of aerial victories
Post-war career
On August 1919 Lloyd Williams was granted a permanent commission in the Royal Air Force with the rank of flying officer. He served in Iraq, and in late 1923 published an article on aspects of aerial navigation there in The Geographical Journal. On 1 July 1924 he was promoted flight lieutenant. He attended the RAF Staff College, Andover, from 19 September 1927. He was posted to No. 208 Squadron RAF in Egypt on 29 January 1929, and from 2 March 1931 served on the staff of the Headquarters of RAF Middle East at Cairo. On 1 December 1933 Lloyd-Williams was seconded for duty with the Metropolitan Police. On 23 June 1934 he was placed on the RAF retired list. Lloyd Williams served as Chief Constable of Cardiganshire from the late 1930s through World War II.
