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Three: Private Frederick Lyon, Middlesex Regiment
1914-15 STAR (G.10738 L. Cpl., Midd’x. R.); BRITISH WAR AND VICTORY MEDALS (10736 Pte., Midd’x. R.)
Three: Serjeant Thomas Lyon, King’s Royal Rifle Corps
1914-15 STAR (R-9088 Pte., K.R. Rif. C.); BRITISH WAR AND VICTORY MEDALS (R-9088 Sjt, K.R. Rif. C.) nearly extremely fine and
better (6) £80-100
Private Frederick Lyon, Middlesex Regiment, entered the France/Flanders theatre of war on 19 October 1915. He was later discharged
as Private 36747 in the Bedfordshire Regiment.
Private Thomas Lyon, King’s Royal Rifle Corps, entered the France/Flanders theatre of war on 31 July 1915. With some copied research.
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Four: Colonel Ralph Harvey Lyon, Essex Regiment
BRITISH WAR AND VICTORY MEDALS (Col.); VOLUNTEER DECORATION, V.R., unnamed, hallmarks for London 1896, complete with
brooch bar; VOLUNTEER LONG SERVICE, V.R., unnamed, nearly extremely fine (4) £160-200
Ralph Harvey Lyon was commissioned a 2nd Lieutenant in the 1st Volunteer Battalion Essex Regiment on 29 June 1881. He attained
the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel in December 1901 and he resigned his commission on 13 August 1904. Awarded the Volunteer Long
Service Medal as a Captain by Army Order 120 of July 1895 and the Volunteer Decoration as a Major in November 1898. As a
Temporary Major (Lieutenant-Colonel and Honorary Colonel, retired, Volunteers), Essex Regiment, Special List, he entered the
France/Flanders theatre of war on 25 July 1917. He relinquished his temporary commission on 16 October 1919. With copied
research.
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Pair: Major Louis George Mackenzie Lyon, Royal Engineers
BRITISH WAR AND VICTORY MEDALS, with loose M.I.D. oakleaf Capt.) extremely fine (2) £60-80
M.I.D. London Gazette 20 December 1918; 7 July 1919.
Louis George Mackenzie Lyon was born in Calcutta in 1893. Later living in Inverness, he was educated at Inverness College and Trent
College, and trained locally as a Civil Engineer. As a 2nd Lieutenant in 2 Field Company, Highland Divisional Engineers, he was
appointed to be a Temporary Lieutenant in July 1915 and a Temporary Captain in March 1916. He was promoted to Lieutenant in June
1916 and appointed Acting Major in January 1919. Lieutenant (Temporary Captain) Lyon entered the France/Flanders theatre of war in
June 1917. Attached to the 89th Field Company, he was twice mentioned in despatches. Discharged from the Army after the war, he
was employed as a Civil Engineer overseas, particularly in Nigeria where he is believed to have been involved in the construction of
the harbour at Port Harcourt. In the Second World War he was commissioned a Lieutenant in the Royal Engineers in September 1940.
He is believed to have spent time in the construction of the military harbour at Cairnryan, Wigtownshire and thereafter spent most of
the remainder of the war in Nigeria. He died on 3 December 1963. With copied research including: m.i.c., gazette and census extracts,
copied M.I.D. certificate and photocopied photographs.
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Pair: Captain Robert Lyon, Gordon Highlanders, killed in action, 30 July 1916
BRITISH WAR AND VICTORY MEDALS (Capt.); together with a MEMORIAL MEDALLION, by A. Drury R.A., 80mm., silvered base metal,
reverse inscribed, ‘Robert Lyon, M.A.L.L.B. younger son of Sir Alexander & Lady Lyon Captain 5th Gordon Highlanders
Killed in Action in France 30th July 1916’, ref. B.H.M. 4150, extremely fine (3) £200-250
Robert Lyon was born in Aberdeen on 14 September 1891. He was educated at Aberdeen Grammar School and Aberdeen University
and gained an M.A. in 1912 and LL.B. in 1914 and was a Hunter Medal winner in Roman Law. He was Clerk to Messrs. Paull &
Williamson, Advocates, Aberdeen, 1912-13 and then Clerk to Messrs. Dalgleish, Dobbie & Co., Edinburgh, 1913. Lyon was
commissioned a 2nd Lieutenant in the 5th Battalion Gordon Highlanders in 1914 and entered the France/Flanders theatre of war on 3
May 1915. Having attained the rank of Captain, he was killed in action at Delville Wood on the Somme, on 30 July 1916. Having no
known grave, his name is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial. He was the son of Sir Alexander Lyon, Kt., D.L., J.P. and Lady
Elsie Inglis Lyon of Queen’s Road, Aberdeen.
With copied research.
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