He returned home for hospital treatment after being wounded in the battle of the Somme in 1916 but recovered sufficiently to qualify again for service overseas.

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Above all we remember the catastrophic battles -- in the attack on the Somme in 1916 the British army walked forward in broad daylight toward entrenched German machine guns and suffered nearly 60, 000 casualties in one day.

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Many of those UVF men joined the 36th Ulster Division of the British Army and died in large numbers during the battle of the Somme in July 1916.

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Capt Lloyd, a vicar's son from the Powys village of Aberedw, served in the Welch Regiment during the early years of WWI, but he was wounded leading an attack at Mametz during the first Battle of the Somme on 7 July 1916.

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He died on 7 July 1916 during the Battle of the Somme when he was in his mid 20s.

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Pte Wolstencroft returned to France after leaving Shepreth, where he died on 7 July 1916 during the Battle of the Somme.

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More than a million soldiers from the British Empire, France and Germany were killed in the battle of the Somme, which took place between July and November 1916.

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