Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Pair: Major L. G. M. Lyon, Royal Engineers

British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaves (Capt. L. G. M. Lyon.) extremely fine (2) £70-£90

Provenance: Dix Noonan Webb, December 2009.

Louis George Mackenzie Lyon was born in Calcutta in 1893. Later living in Inverness, he was educated at Inverness College and Trent College, and trained locally as a Civil Engineer. As a Second Lieutenant in 2 Field Company, Highland Divisional Engineers, he was appointed to be a Temporary Lieutenant in July 1915 and a Temporary Captain in March 1916. He served during the Great War on the Western Front from June 1917, attached to the 89th Field Company, and was twice Mentioned in Despatches (London Gazettes 20 December 1918 and 7 July 1919). He was appointed Acting Major in January 1919.

Discharged from the Army after the war, Lyon was employed as a Civil Engineer overseas, particularly in Nigeria where he is believed to have been involved in the construction of the harbour at Port Harcourt. In the Second World War he was commissioned a Lieutenant in the Royal Engineers in September 1940. He is believed to have spent time in the construction of the military harbour at Cairnryan, Wigtownshire and thereafter spent most of the remainder of the war in Nigeria. He died on 3 December 1963.

Sold with copied research including a photographic image of the recipient.