Orders, Decorations and Medals

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

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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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.