Name
Alexander Patrick Francis Lyon
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
27/08/1914
26
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Lieutenant
Gordon Highlanders
1st Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Mentioned in Despatches
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
BERTRY COMMUNAL CEMETERY
BB. 1.
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Haileybury College Cloister Wall Memorial, Hertford Heath Chapel Plaque to the Three Lyon Brothers
Pre War
Born on 5 Aug 1888 in Kensington, London son of Walter Fitzgerald Knox and Isabella Romanes (Towers-Clark) Lyon, later of Tantallon Lodge, North Berwick, East Lothian, Scotland. Educated at Haileybury College 1901–05.
Wartime Service
The 1st Gordon Highlanders were trapped and virtually annihilated at Bertry on 26 Aug 1914. The village was later occupied by the South African Brigade on the 9 Oct 1918. A number of the dead were buried by the enemy in Aug 1914 and the others by the 3rd Cavalry and 38th (Welsh) Divisions in Oct 1918.
Additional Information
Brother of Captain Charles James Lyon who was killed in action on 13 Nov 1914 and of Lieutenant Walter Scott Stuart Lyon killed in action on 8 May 1915 who are all commemorated on these memorials.
Acknowledgments
Malcolm Lennox, Karen Smith - Acting Director of External Relations www.haileybury.com/honour
