Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A Great War ‘Western Front’ M.M. group of four awarded to Pioneer R. M. Lyon, Royal Engineers

Military Medal, G.V.R. (72851 Sapr. R. M. Lyon. 2/A. Sig. Coy. R.E.); 1914-15 Star (72851 Pnr. R. M. Lyon. R.E.); British War and Victory Medals (72851 Pnr. R. M. Lyon. R.E.) lacquered, traces of adhesive to reverse, very fine (4) £280-£320

M.M. London Gazette 13 September 1918.

Richard Mark Lyon was born in Leeds in 1895, and attested as a Signal Lad in the Royal Engineers on 23 March 1915. On 12 June 1915 he embarked for the Base Signal Depot in France, joining the Second Army H.Q. Signal Company on 17 July 1915. Awarded the Military Medal on 10 September 1918, he transferred to Class ‘Z’ Reserve on 23 June 1919.

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