Name
Charles James Lyon
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
13/11/1914
24
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Lieutenant
Royal Scots Fusiliers
1st Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Mentioned in Despatches
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
YPRES (MENIN GATE) MEMORIAL
Panel 19 and 33
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 28 Mar 1890 in Kensington, London son of Walter Fitzgerald Knox and Isabella Romanes (Towers-Clark) Lyon later of Tantallon Lodge, North Berwick, East Lothian, Scotland. Educated at Haileybury College 1905–08.
Wartime Service
The Battalion mobilised for war and entered France at Le Havre on 14 Aug 1914 as part of the British Expeditionary Force. He was killed in action during the first Battle of Ypres.
Additional Information
Brother of Lieutenant Alexander Patrick Francis Lyon who was killed in action on 19 Aug 1914 and of Lieutenant Walter Scott Stuart Lyon killed in action on 8 May 1915 who are all commemorated on these memorials.
Acknowledgments
Malcolm Lennox, Karen Smith - Acting Director of External Relations www.haileybury.com/honour
