Parents: Earnest & Blanche Ehrbar

Siblings: 2 sisters

  - Lloyd grew up in Medina, Ohio and attended school there

  - Family moved to Coshocton, Ohio

Home: 941 South Seventh Street - Coshocton, Ohio

Inducted:

    - U. S. Army

        - 22 January 1940

Training: 

    - Fort Knox, Kentucky

    - Camp Polk, Louisiana

Overseas Duty: 

    - Philippine Islands

Engagements: 

    - Battle of Luzon

    - Battle of Bataan

Prisoner of War: 

    - 9 April 1942

        - Death March

            - Mariveles - POWs start march at southern tip of Bataan

               - POWs ran past Japanese artillery firing on Corregidor

               - American artillery on Corregidor returned fire

            - San Fernando -POWs put into small wooden boxcars used to haul sugarcane

               - each boxcar could hold eight horses or forty men

               -  Japanese packed 100 POWs into each boxcar

               - POWs who died remained standing

            - Capas - POWs left boxcars - dead POWs fell to the floor

            - POWs walked the last ten miles to Camp O'Donnell 

POW Camps: 

    - Philippine Islands: 

        - Camp O'Donnell

           - unfinished Filipino Army training base 

            - Japanese put camp into use as POW camp

            - one water spigot for the entire camp

            - as many as fifty POWs died each day 

            - POWs went out on work details to get out of camp 

        - Cabanatuan

Died: 15 June 1942 - dysentery & malaria

            - Approximate time of death: 2:15 A.M.

Buried: American Military Cemetery - Manila

Note: Following Lloyd's last request, his family had Lloyd buried with his comrades