Orders, Decorations and Medals

A Great War M.B.E. group of three awarded to Deputy Violet Dorothy Agnes Lyon, Queen Mary’s Army Auxiliary Corps

The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, M.B.E. (Military) Member’s 1st type breast badge, silver; British War and Victory Medals (A. Adtr., Q.M.A.A.C.) good very fine and better (3) £200-240

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of medals awarded to those having the surname 'Lyon'.

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M.B.E. London Gazette 3 June 1919. ‘Miss Violet Dorothy Agnes Lyon, Deputy Administrator, Q.M.A.A.C.’.

Violet Dorothy Agnes Lyon was born in Romford, Essex on 31 December 1894, the daughter of Colonel R. H. Lyon. During the Great War she was appointed an Assistant Administrator in the Q.M.A.A.C. in March 1918 and was advanced to Deputy Administrator in March 1919. With the Q.M.A.A.C. she served in Boulogne, France. In October 1918, the Q.M.A.A.C. Controller-in-Chief Florence Leach undertook an inspection of the Corps in France. She recorded her assessment of Miss Lyon as: ‘Miss Lyon is good clerically. She has some idea of organisation and arranged the performance for the Controller-in-Chief’s visit very well. She lacks education’. Despite this lack, Miss Lyon was later awarded the M.B.E. for her services in the Great War. Miss Lyon died in Wimbledon on 28 June 1977.

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