Identity area
Type of entity
Person
Authorized form of name
Williams, Lloyd
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Description area
Dates of existence
fl. 1880-1930
History
Lloyd Williams was born in South Africa towards the end of the nineteenth century. His family was mixed ancestry of British, German, and Boer, and when the Anglo-Boer war broke out Lloyd joined the Boers, while his three brothers joined the British. Williams was taken prisoner during this conflict, and spent the remainder of the war at a prisoner of war camp in Ceylon. Williams was a photographer and he was permitted to take photographs of the prison camps.