Orders, Decorations and Medals

Pair: Major Louis George Mackenzie Lyon, Royal Engineers

British War and Victory Medals, with loose M.I.D. oakleaf Capt.) extremely fine (2) £60-80

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of medals awarded to those having the surname 'Lyon'.

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M.I.D. London Gazette 20 December 1918; 7 July 1919.

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 2nd 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 was promoted to Lieutenant in June 1916 and appointed Acting Major in January 1919. Lieutenant (Temporary Captain) Lyon entered the France/Flanders theatre of war in June 1917. Attached to the 89th Field Company, he was twice mentioned in despatches. Discharged from the Army after the war, he 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. With copied research including: m.i.c., gazette and census extracts, copied M.I.D. certificate and photocopied photographs.