{"id":876,"date":"2011-11-16T01:47:23","date_gmt":"2011-11-16T01:47:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/mecklenburg\/?p=876"},"modified":"2012-01-10T23:03:50","modified_gmt":"2012-01-10T23:03:50","slug":"lloyd-douglas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/mecklenburg\/lloyd-douglas\/","title":{"rendered":"LLOYD, Douglas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/mecklenburg\/files\/2011\/10\/LloydDouglas-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-595\" src=\"http:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/mecklenburg\/files\/2011\/10\/LloydDouglas-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"675\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/mecklenburg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/LloydDouglas-1.jpg 900w, https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/mecklenburg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/LloydDouglas-1-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Master Sergeant Douglas Lloyd<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Birth:\u00a0 Jun. 4, 1929 Cornelius, Mecklenburg Co., NC<\/p>\n<p>Death:\u00a0 May 28, 1967, Vietnam.<\/p>\n<p>Army Master Sergeant served with Alpha Company, Fifth Special Forces Group. He has been missing in action from combat operations when his organization had engaged in a hostile a firefight in Binh Long, South Vietnam and was later recovered.<\/p>\n<p>A Master Sergeant is the eighth enlisted rank in the U.S. Army, just above sergeant first class, below sergeant major, and equal in grade but not authority to first sergeant. It is abbreviated as &#8220;MSG&#8221; and indicated by three chevrons above three rockers. Age: 37 Caucasian and was married SSN\/Service #: 53083515 Length of Service was 16 years and was a specialist in Infantry Operations and Intelligence.\u00a0 He was the son of Henry Loyd and Laura Elizabeth Muller Loyd<\/p>\n<p>Burial: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bing.com\/maps\/explore\/#5003\/0.6002=q:35.48690,+-80.87000:lat:35.2196477155524:long:-80.9711:nosp:0:adj:0&amp;1.6002=q:35.21970,+-80.97110:lat:35.3731167743021:long:-80.9053:nosp:0:adj:0&amp;2.6002=q:35.37310,+-80.90530:lat:35.3100999466236:long:-80.71:nosp:0:adj:0&amp;3.6002=q:35.31010,+-80.71000:lat:35.3845114984811:long:-80.8034:nosp:0:adj:0&amp;4.6002=q:35.38450,+-80.80340:lat:35.4149899465552:long:-80.84154:nosp:0:adj:0&amp;5.6002=q:35.41499,+-80.84154:lat:35.2076499466912:long:-80.61169:nosp:0:adj:0&amp;6.6002=q:35.20765,+-80.61169:lat:35.1978222837554:long:-80.76245:nosp:0:adj:0&amp;7.6002=q:35.19806,+-80.76245:lat:35.2357867231684:long:-80.8450000000001:nosp:0:adj:0&amp;8.6002=q:35.23750,+-80.84500:lat:35.2098920464273:long:-80.829999999:nosp:0:adj:0&amp;o=&amp;a=0:1:2:3:4:5:6:7:8\/5872\/style=auto&amp;lat=pxf005&amp;lon=87trh0&amp;alt=221.819275&amp;z=17&amp;pid=5874\" target=\"_blank\">Bethel Presbyterian Church Cemetery<\/a> Cornelius, Mecklenburg Co., NC<\/p>\n<p>Plot: Old Section Row A.<\/p>\n<p><cite>(Source: Posted with permission of Tom &amp; Jim Reece, #46857744; <q>finding NC Vietnam KIA\/MIA&#8217;s gravesites<\/q>; Reconfigured and submitted by: Ron Yates)<\/cite><\/p>\n<p><cite><a href=\"http:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/mecklenburg\/files\/2011\/10\/LloydDouglas-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-596\" src=\"http:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/mecklenburg\/files\/2011\/10\/LloydDouglas-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"828\" height=\"412\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/mecklenburg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/LloydDouglas-2.jpg 828w, https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/mecklenburg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/LloydDouglas-2-300x149.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/cite><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Master Sergeant Douglas Lloyd Birth:\u00a0 Jun. 4, 1929 Cornelius, Mecklenburg Co., NC Death:\u00a0 May 28, 1967, Vietnam. Army Master Sergeant served with Alpha Company, Fifth Special Forces Group. He has been missing in action from combat operations when his organization had engaged in a hostile a firefight in Binh Long, South Vietnam and was later &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/mecklenburg\/lloyd-douglas\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;LLOYD, Douglas&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5468],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vietnam-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/mecklenburg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/mecklenburg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/mecklenburg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/mecklenburg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/mecklenburg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/mecklenburg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/876\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/mecklenburg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/mecklenburg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/mecklenburg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}