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A Great War ‘Western Front’ M.M. group of four awarded to Pioneer Richard Mark Lyon, Royal Engineers
MILITARY MEDAL, G.V.R. (72851 Sapr., 2/A. Sig. Coy. R.E.); 1914-15 STAR (72851 Pnr., R.E.); BRITISH WAR AND VICTORY MEDALS
(72851 Pnr., R.E.) very fine (4) £280-320
M.M. London Gazette 13 September 1918.
Richard Mark Lyon was born in 1895, the second child of Thomas and Alice Lyon of Jackson Place, St. Savior, Leeds. He enlisted as a
Signal Lad in the Royal Engineers on 23 March 1915, aged 15 years. On 12 June 1915 he embarked for the Base Signal Depot in
France, joining the Second Army H.Q. Signal Company on 17 July 1915. Awarded the Military Medal on 10 September 1918.
Transferred to Class ‘Z’ Reserve on 23 June 1919, giving 22 Oxley Street, Leeds, as his intended address. With copied service papers,
gazette and census extracts.
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A Great War ‘Western Front’ M.M. group of three awarded to Driver John Lyon, Royal Field Artillery
MILITARY MEDAL, G.V.R. (686539 Dvr., C.64/Bde. R.F.A.-T.F.); BRITISH WAR AND VICTORY MEDALS (2814 Dvr., R.A.) edge
bruising, contact marks, nearly very fine (3) £200-240
M.M. London Gazette 28 July 1917.
With copied m.i.c. and gazette extracts.
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A Great War ‘Western Front’ M.M. awarded to Acting Bombardier Daniel Lyon, Royal Field Artillery
MILITARY MEDAL, G.V.R. (96621 Gnr.-A. Bmbr., 379/By. 169/A. Bde. R.F.A.) nearly very fine £140-180
M.M. London Gazette 13 March 1918.
Daniel Lyon was a Miner from Quarter, Lanarkshire. Sold with copied research.
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Five: Private Charles Lyon, 21st Canadian Infantry, late Bedfordshire Regiment
QUEEN’S SOUTH AFRICA 1899-1902, 2 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State (6657 Pte., Bedford. Regt.); KING’S SOUTH AFRICA
1901-02, 2 clasps (6657 Pte., Bedford Regt.); 1914-15 STAR (59612 Pte., 21/Can. Inf.); BRITISH WAR AND VICTORY MEDALS
(59612 Pte., 21-Can. Inf. ) note: on last two surname spelt ‘Lyons’, first two with contact marks, nearly very fine and
better (5) £240-280
Charles Lyon was born in Hamilton, New Zealand on 3 August 1874. He was the
fifth of seven children of Colonel William Charles Lyon, a descendant of the
Lyons of Glamis, Earls of Strathmore. He attested for the Corps of Dragoons at
London on 3 March 1899, aged 24 years, 6 months but was transferred to the
Bedfordshire Regiment in November the same year. With them he served as
mounted infantry in South Africa, June 1900-April 1905. Lyon was transferred to
the Army Reserve in March 1906 and discharged on 2 March 1911. He then
worked as a Lumberman, in Haliburton, Canada and he joined the Canadian
Expeditionary Force in November 1914, subtracting three years from his age in
order to do so. He sailed to England aboard the R.M.S. Metagama in May 1915
and embarked for France in October. He was slightly wounded in March 1916,
suffering a gunshot wound to his right eyebrow and lower lip. In September he
was posted back to England and spent the rest of the war on the strength of
various Canadian military hospitals. Charles Lyon was honourably discharged in
April 1918 and at first lived once more in Haliburton, Ontario but by the 1930’s
had returned once more to England. Lyon died at Matfield on 8 Oct 1960.
With extensive copied research, including: copied British and Canadian Army
Service papers, New Zealand Birth Certificate; U.K. Marriage and Death
Certificates; copied and modern photographs; family tree; together with an
original photograph of the recipient in uniform, with an associated newspaper
cutting titled, ‘Honored Soldier Returned’ (to Haliburton), in which it was stated,
‘.... He was three times wounded in action, once so badly that he was
erroneously reported killed. ....’ Also with copied article, ‘The Elusive
Photograph’, by Dan Lyon, taken from Medal News, October 2005, together with
a further article accepted for future publication in the O.M.R.S. Journal.
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Four: Serjeant Henry Lyon, 6th South African Infantry, late Lieutenant, South Lancashire Regiment
QUEEN’S SOUTH AFRICA 1899-1902, 2 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State (Lieut., S/Lanc. Rgt.); KING’S SOUTH AFRICA 1901
-02, 2 clasps (Lt., S. Lanc. Rgt.); BRITISH WAR AND BILINGUAL VICTORY MEDALS (Sjt., 6th S.A.I.) good very fine (4) £280-320
Henry Lyon was born at Woolwich Arsenal on 10 August 1872, the youngest of four soldier sons of Colonel Francis Lyon, of the
‘Appleton Hall Lyons’. He was educated at Prince of Orange House, Wellington College, 1885-88. He served for a time with the
Foreign Office in Algeria, and in 1894 became the Private Secretary to the Agent General of the Niger Coast Protectorate. By the time
of the Benin Massacre he was an Assistant District Commissioner at Sapele, and met the survivors on their way back down the river.
He left in 1897 and on 25 May was commissioned into the 3rd (Militia) Battalion of the South Lancashire Regiment. He served with
them in the Boer War, and at one stage was in command of a Maxim gun detachment. He remained in South Africa, attached to the
Army Service Corps, when his Battalion returned to England in July 1901, and he eventually resigned his commission on 20 June 1903.
On 4 December 1915, then working as a Farm Manager, he enlisted as a Private in the Machine Gun Section of the 6th South African
Infantry. He served with them as a Serjeant in the campaign in German East Africa but falling ill with a tropical disease, he was
discharged on 30 March 1917 as being temporarily unfit for further war service.
He left to farm at White Thorns, Emangeni and by 1920 was a Planter at nearby Felixton. Latterly retiring to Castle Drive, Horley,
Surrey, he died on 22 November 1940. With copied research.
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