Name
Lionel Gallway (poss Gallwey) Lutyens (MC)
30 Dec 1889
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
06/01/1918
28
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Major
Royal Field Artillery
123rd Battery, 28th Brigade
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 (Mons) Star (with Clasp & Roses), British War and Victory medals
Military Cross
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
CANADA FARM CEMETERY
III. G. 3.
Belgium
Headstone Inscription
WHEN I AWAKE UP AFTER THY LIKENESS I SHALL BE SATISFIED PSALM 17. 15
UK & Other Memorials
Great Amwell Village Memorial, St John the Baptist Church Memorial, Great Amwell, Aldenham School Memorial, Aldenham
Pre War
Born on 30 Dec 1889 at Hascombe Place, Surrey son of Charles Benjamin and Emily (Bard) Lutyens and baptised on 9 Jan 1890 in Hascombe and of The Grove, Great Amwell, Herts. in 1911. Educated at King’s College School, Cambridge, Bedford Grammar and Aldenham School.
Entered Woolwich in 1909 for Artillery training. Gazetted 2nd Lieut in 1911, Lieut 1913 and Captain on 27 Oct 1916 and Temporary Major in Nov 16.
Wartime Service
Serving in France from August 1914, he took part in the Battles of Mons, Le Cateau and the Retreat and in the Battle of the Marne. He was the first to get his Battery over Vimy Ridge.
He was awarded the Military Cross at the Somme (London Gazette 2 Jan 1917) for 60 day & 60 nights in command and was killed in action at Langemarck, 6 Jan 1918.
Additional Information
His mother, Mrs E. Lutyens of Great Amwell, Herts., ordered his headstone inscription: "WHEN I AWAKE UP AFTER THY LIKENESS I SHALL BE SATISFIED PSALM 17. 15" Brother of Capt Charles Graeme Lutyens who died 9 Aug 1915 and is listed on this same memorial.
Acknowledgments
Neil Cooper
Malcolm Lennox, Tony James
