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Auction: 1006 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals & Militaria
Lot: 254

x Three: Lieutenant Colonel C. Lyon, Royal Field Artillery 1914-15 Star (Lt: Col: C. Lyon. R.F.A.); British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. Oakleaves (Lt. Col. C. Lyon), good very fine (3) Estimate £ 100-140 M.I.D. London Gazette 15.6.1916 Lyon, Maj. (temp. Lt.-Col.) C. (Res. of Off.), Royal Field Artillery. Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Lyon, born April 1862; educated at Wellington College and Royal Military Academy, Woolwich; Commissioned Lieutenant, Royal Field Artillery, December 1884; employed with the Egyptian Army, January 1891 to February 1893; Aide-de-Camp to the Governor General and Commander in Chief, Ceylon, September 1893 to December 1894; Captain, December 1894; Adjutant of Militia, November 1895 to May 1900; Major, May 1900; retired, December 1908; Lieutenant-Colonel, 2nd Wessex Brigade, Royal Field Artillery (Territorial Army), 1909-13; rejoined the Army as Major, Royal Field Artillery, August 1914; served on the Western Front, 1915-16; Lieutenant-Colonel Commanding 151st Brigade, Royal Field Artillery; Appointed High Sheriff of Cheshire, 1924-25.

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