Name
Walter Scott Stuart Lyon
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
08/05/1915
28
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Lieutenant
Royal Scots
9th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
YPRES (MENIN GATE) MEMORIAL
Panel 11.
Belgium
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Haileybury College Cloister Wall Memorial, Hertford Heath Chapel Plaque to the Three Lyon Brothers
Pre War
Born on 1 Oct 1886 son of Walter F. K. and Isabella R. Lyon, of Tantallon Lodge, North Berwick. Educated at Haileybury College 1899-1905 and Balliol College, Oxford reading law.
Wartime Service
Entered Belgium in Feb 1915 and was killed in the trenches at Potijze Wood near Ypres by fierce shelling.
Additional Information
He was a war poet and a collection of his poems was published in 1916. Brother of Lieut Alexander Patrick Francis Lyon killed in action on 19 September 1914 & Capt Charles James Lyon killed in action on 13 Nov 1914 all of whom are commemorated on these me
Acknowledgments
Malcolm Lennox, Karen Smith - Acting Director of External Relations www.haileybury.com/honour
