Orders, Decorations and Medals

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

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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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.

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