Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Six: Battery Quartermaster Sergeant R. H. Lyon, Royal Artillery

1939-45 Star; Africa Star; Italy Star; Defence and War Medals, M.I.D. oak leaf, these unnamed and gilded; Efficiency Medal, G.VI.R. 1st issue. Territorial (1473451 B.Q.M.S., R.A.) mounted court style for display, good very fine (6) £100-140

M.I.D. London Gazette 23 May 1946. ‘... in recognition of gallant and distinguished services in the Mediterranean theatre.’

Reginald Hugh Lyon was born on 6 December 1911. A Bank Clerk by occupation, he enlisted at Chelsea on 24 April 1939. As a B.Q.M.S. he was discharged from the 610 Regiment R.A. (London Scottish) in October 1945.

With original Soldier’s Service and Pay Book (Damaged); Soldier’s Release Book; M.I.D. Certificate in envelope; medal forwarding slip; M.I.D. emblem forwarding slip (2); War Office letter, dated 4 October 1938 registering Lyon as a candidate for a commission in the Somerset Light Infantry; Army Form D.406 Notice to an Officer on the Unemployed List or Reserve Class “Z” List, dated 1 October 1951; sundry other letters and a fine studio photograph of the recipient in uniform.