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Pair: Private John Lyon, Northamptonshire Regiment, killed in action, 10 February 1915.
BRITISH WAR AND VICTORY MEDALS (7487 Pte., North’n. R.); MEMORIAL PLAQUE (John Lyon) good very fine (3) £100-140
John Lyon was born in Leighton, Huntingdonshire and enlisted at Kettering, Northamptonshire. Serving with the 1st Battalion
Northamptonshire Regiment, he entered the France/Flanders theatre of war on 13 August 1914. He was killed in action on 10 February
1915. Having no known grave, his name is commemorated on the Le Touret Memorial. With copied m.i.c. showing the award of the
1914 Star and clasp.
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Pair: Second Lieutenant Thomas Lyon, Loyal North Lancashire Regiment, late Machine Gun Corps
BRITISH WAR AND VICTORY MEDALS (68306 Cpl., M.G.C.) nearly extremely fine (2) £30-40
Thomas Lyon was born in Eccleston in June 1894. He attested at the Prescott recruiting office on 3 August 1915 and was posted
initially to the South Lancashire Regiment’s Training Reserve Battalion and thence to the Machine Gun Corps. He was promoted to
Lance-Corporal in September 1915 and Corporal in July 1916. Posted to France on 13 March 1917, he served with 215 Company
Machine Gun Corps. Lyon returned to the U.K. in February 1918 to train for a commission, and was posted to 17 Officer Cadet
Battalion at Kinmel Park, near Abergele. He was granted a temporary commission in April 1920, backdated to 3 February 1919,
gazetted to the North Lancashire Regiment. With copied research.
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BRITISH SOUTH AFRICA COMPANY MEDAL 1890-97, reverse Mashonaland 1897 (279 Troopr. A. H. Lyon, B.S.A. Police) edge
bruising, very fine £240-280
Alfred Herbert Lyon was born in 1873, the son of Alfred Lyon, a Landowner and Magistrate, living at Middlecott in Ilsington,
Devonshire. Alfred Herbert Lyon first served as a young Lieutenant in the 4th Derby (Sherwood Forresters) Militia, from which he
resigned in 1894 ‘on taking up other professional duties’. In November 1896 he embarked for Salisbury, Rhodesia, and attested for the
British South Africa Police in December, signing on for 12 months. He served as a Trooper at Umtalli and Melsetter through the
Mashonaland Rebellion, and was discharged in December 1897 when his period of engagement expired. The Imperial Yeomanry was
established in December 1899, and the first contingent attracted members of the gentry, who had to provide their own horses, clothing,
saddlery and accoutrements. Lyon, then employed as a Schoolmaster, signed on as Private 6520 with the 27th (Devonshire) Company
of the 7th Battalion which served in South Africa from February 1900 to Mid-1901. His papers show service at ‘Constanta’ and
‘Wepener’. Returning to England, by 1906 Lyon was married and was employed as a Teacher at Arden School in Tormoham. During
the Great War, he applied for a commission in January 1917, was accepted to the Officer Cadet Battalion at Cambridge. In August
1917 he was granted a temporary commission with the Labour Corps and entered France in March 1918. In June he was transferred to
the 11th Battalion Cameron Highlanders, and in November was appointed Acting Captain and given command of a Labour Corps
Company detailed to guard prisoners-of-war. Demobilised on 29 October 1919, he was permitted to retain the rank of Captain. In 1936
Lyon was living at Foxleaze, North Lane, Rustington. There, he applied for a replacement B.S.A. Company Medal. He was informed
that one could be supplied at a cost of 18 shillings but six months later he replied that he had been totally unable to earn anything
since a severe illness and asked for time to raise the money. Alfred Herbert Lyon died of a cerebral haemorrhage in 1939, at the
hospital in College Lane, Chichester. At that time he was a Private Schoolmaster, living at Wiston Rectory.
With copied service papers and other research. Note: The above medal is the recipient’s original issue.
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BRITISH WAR MEDAL 1914-20 (1678 Pte. B. Lyon, K.O.Y.L.I.) official correction to service number and unit; MEMORIAL
PLAQUE (Bernard Lyon) good very fine (2) £40-60
Bernard Lyon was born on 4 October 1893. Employed as a Railway Wagon Shunter, he was a member of the 1/4th King’s Own
Yorkshire Light Infantry-T.F. With the onset of war, his Territorial Battalion became part of 148 Brigade, 49 (West Riding) Division.
Lyon entered Boulogne on 13 April 1915 and was initially employed as a Cook, but towards the end of May 1916 he was deployed as
a Sniper. Private Bernard Lyon was killed in action on 7 July 1916 at Thiepval. Having no known grave his name is commemorated on
the Thiepval Memorial.
With a quantity of copied research, including a a copy of the article, ‘Some Great War Lyon Toffs and Toughs’, by Dan Lyon, which
appeared in the O.M.R.S. Journal of June 2009.
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VICTORY MEDAL 1914-19 (15027 Sjt. J. Lyon, E. Lan. R.) nearly extremely fine £30-50
James Albert Lyon was born in Blackburn, Lancaster. An Overlooker by occupation, he attested for service with the East Lancashire
Regiment, at Accrington, on 14 September 1914, aged 32 years, 1 month. Posted to the 11th (Accrington Pals) Battalion, East
Lancashire Regiment, he attained the rank of Serjeant in March 1915. With the ‘Pals’ he served in Egypt, December 1915-March 1916,
after which the battalion was posted to France.
As part of the great Somme Offensive, the 11th Battalion was assigned a position opposite the fortified village of Serre. In the early
morning of 1 July 1916, after the British bombardment had lifted, the Accrington Pals began their advance on the village. The
bombardments had left the German positions largely intact and the ‘Pals’ advanced into a murderous hail of artillery and machine-gun
fire. Their heroism became the stuff of legend, as 584 out of 720 were simply mown down. Many of them actually reached the German
trenches, but had to withdraw when their reinforcements were mown down in turn. The battle for Serre ended in thirty minutes with
the village still in German hands.
James Lyon survived the attack unscathed but in the evening of 1/2 July was wounded in action, receiving shrapnel/gunshot(?) wound
to the left buttock causing a compound fracture to his left leg. Seriously injured, he was invalided to England and was discharged with a
pension, being unfit for further military service, in November 1917. He was awarded the Silver War Badge and returned to civil life as
an Inspector with the Accrington Gas Works. However, still suffering from his war wounds, he died on 18 February 1919 and was laid
to rest in Accrington Cemetery. He was the husband of Edith Lyon of 47 Nutter Road, Accrington. With a quantity of copied research
and some copied photographs.
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MEMORIAL PLAQUE (George Lyon) in card envelope, good very fine £30-40
Attributed to 13/564 Private George Lyon, 13th (1st Barnsley) Battalion York and Lancaster Regiment, who was born in and enlisted at
Barnsley and who was killed in action on 1 July 1916. One of the ‘Barnsley Pals’ killed on the 1st day of the battle of the Somme. With
copied service papers, m.i.c., and other research. Note: there are other servicemen with this name on the C.W.G.C. list.
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