Orders, Decorations and Medals

Great War Memorial Medallion, by A. Drury, obverse: Minerva tending a fallen naked male figure, reverse: a soldier and sailor with arms reversed, by a plaque, inscribed, ‘Robert Lyon, M.A. LL.B., younger son of Sir Alexander & Lady Lyon, Captain 5th Gordon Highlanders, killed in action in France 30th July 1916’, 80mm., silver, very fine £50-70

Captain Robert Lyon, 5th Battalion Gordon Highlanders, was killed in action on 30 July 1916, aged 24 years. Having no known grave, his name is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial. Sold with some copied research.