Eric Lyon

Forenames

Eric AWMM

Surname

Lyon AWMM

Service number

WWI 45009 AWMM

Gender

Male AWMM

Next of kin

Mrs E.A. Lyon (wife), care of W.D. Lyon, 226 The Terrace, Wellington, New Zealand AWMM

War

World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM

Armed force / branch

Army AWMM

Service number

WWI 45009 AWMM

Enlistment

WW1 Unknown AWMM Solicitor/Civilian AWMM

Embarkation details

WW1 26 Apr 1917-28 Jul 1917 AWMM
HMNZT 82 AWMM Vessel was Pakeha AWMM Corporal/Military AWMM 24th Reinforcements, Canterbury Infantry Regiment, C Company AWMM New Zealand Expeditionary Force AWMM

Medical notes

Killed in Action, Cause of Death AWMM

Last rank

WW1 Corporal/Military AWMM
Canterbury Infantry Regiment, 1st Battalion AWMM

Son of William Deans Lyon and Edith Mary Lyon; husband of Edith Annie Lyon, of 226, Wellington Terrace, Wellington, New Zealand. AWMM

Death

29 Sept 1918 AWMM
Age  29 AWMM

Cause of death

Killed in Action AWMM

Cemetery

Fifteen Ravine British Cemetery, Villers-Plouich, Nord, France AWMM IV. G. 13. AWMM

Memorial name

• Memorial gates, Greytown Soldiers Memorial Park, Kuratawhiti Street, Greytown, Wairarapa, New Zealand AWMM
• Memorial trees, 117 lime trees, Avenue of Remembrance, Greytown Soldiers Memorial Park, Kuratawhiti Street, Greytown, Wairarapa, New Zealand AWMM
• St Peter's Anglican Church, Te Aro, Wellington, New Zealand AWMM

Related objects

External links

• Military personnel file
  https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R10921385
  Further Reference
• Ministry for Culture and Heritage, New Zealand History online. Greytown War Memorial.
  https://nzhistory.govt.nz/memorial/greytown-war-memorial
  Further Reference
• Greytown Memorial Park
  http://www.greytown.co.nz/thingstodo/park.html
  Further Reference
• New Zealand Lawyers Roll of Honour, New Zealand Law Society website
  http://www.lawsociety.org.nz/news-and-communications/people-in-the-law/obituaries/obituaries-list/eric-lyon,-1889-1918
  Further Reference
• A Street Near You record
  https://astreetnearyou.org/person/239695/-
  Further Reference
• Commonwealth War Graves Commission Casualty record
  https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/239695
  Further Reference
• New Zealand War Graves Trust
  https://www.nzwargraves.org.nz/
  Further Reference

References

• Information kindly provided by family
• New Zealand Army Expeditionary Force. (1918). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force Volume III. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
  60: 3
• Beattie, P.J. & Pomeroy, M. (2013-2020). Onward : portraits of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force (vols 1-5). Auckland, New Zealand: Fair Dinkum Publications
  Vol. 3: Includes portrait
• Ferguson, David (1921). The history of the Canterbury Regiment, N.Z.E.F. 1914-1919. Whitcombe and Tombs Ltd: Auckland, N.Z.
• HMNZT 82 - The Pakeha (Mark III) : being the journal of the Left Wing of the 24th New Zealand Reinforcements. Burge, W.R. (William Ralph), editor. -- At sea : Officers and men, 24th Reinforcements : 1917