William John Lyon

Ngā ingoa tuatahi

William John AWMM

Ingoa whānau

Lyon AWMM

Ingoa kārangaranga

Jack AWMM

Nama Hōia

2574 AWMM

Ira tangata

Male AWMM

Pono

Church of England, Christian AWMM

Whānautanga mai

15 Feb 1898 AWMM

Wāhi noho i mua i te whakaurunga

Pre Sep 1939 AWMM Eversleigh Rd, Takapuna, Auckland, New Zealand AWMM

Uri kiritahi

Alice Elizabeth Lyon (wife), Eversleigh Rd, Takapuna, Auckland, New Zealand AWMM

Mēnā he hoa rangatira tōna

Unknown AWMM Married AWMM
Married, 2 children AWMM

Pakanga

• World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM
• World War II, 1939-1945 AWMM

Kauhanga riri

• Greece AWMM
• 1941 AWMM Crete AWMM
• 1914-1916 AWMM Egypt AWMM

Te Ope o Tū / te peka

Army AWMM

Nama Hōia

2574 AWMM

Mētara me ngā Tohu

• British War Medal (1914-1920) AWMM
• Victory Medal AWMM
• 1939-1945 Star AWMM
• Africa Star AWMM
• Defence Medal AWMM
• War Medal 1939-1945 with oak leaf AWMM
• New Zealand War Service Medal AWMM

Te urunga

WW2 Sep 1939 AWMM
Age  41 AWMM
Member of Parliament/Civilian AWMM

Taipitopito ekenga waka

• WW1 Vessel was Unknown Ship AWMM Captain/Military AWMM Royal Sussex Regiment AWMM British Expeditionary Force AWMM
• WW2 Vessel was Orion AWMM 18 Infantry Battalion AWMM
  2nd Embarkation AWMM

Tuhinga hauora

• Height, Unknown Period AWMM
  5 feet 10 inches AWMM
• Other, Unknown Period AWMM
  Varicose veins AWMM
• Killed in Action, Cause of Death AWMM

Te tūnga whakamutunga

WW2 Captain/Military AWMM
18 Infantry Battalion AWMM

Son of William John Lyon and Ann Lyon (nee Yeates)

Husband of Alice (Alison) Elizabeth Lyon

Served in WW 1 with the Royal Sussex Regiment, aged 17 years. Other details of this service are not known

He was the Labour Member of Parliament (MP) for Waitemata Electorate 1935 - 1941.

Captain Lyon was the first New Zealand Member of Parliament to be killed in World War 2.

Remembered on the Takapuna War Memorial, The Strand, Takapuna. AWMM

Matenga

26 May 1941 AWMM
Age  43 AWMM

Te momo matenga

Killed in Action AWMM

Pānui Matenga

Death notice: New Zealand Herald, (June?), 1941 AWMM

Ingoa maumaharatanga

• Athens Memorial, Phaleron War Cemetery, Athens, Greece AWMM
• Roll of Honour, New Zealand Parliament, first-floor main foyer, Wellington, New Zealand AWMM
• Lyon Memorial Hall, Anzac Street, Takapuna, Auckland, New Zealand AWMM
• Takapuna War Memorial, The Strand, Takapuna, Auckland, New Zealand AWMM
• Takapuna War Memorial, (ex RSA Roll, on a boulder), The Strand, Takapuna, Auckland, New Zealand AWMM
• Memorial Drive, 1939-1945, Devonport Memorial Drive, Auckland AWMM
• Memorial Drive, Lake Road, Devonport, Auckland AWMM
• Auckland War Memorial Museum, World War 2 Hall of Memories AWMM

Mea e whai hononga ai

Hononga ki waho

• Dawson, W. (1961). 18 Battalion and Armoured Regiment. Wellington, Dept. of Internal Affairs, War History Branch. Digital copy
  http://www.nzetc.org/tm/scholarly/tei-WH2-18Ba.html
  Sources Used
• McClymont, W. (1959). To Greece. Wellington, N.Z.: War History Branch, Dept. of Internal Affairs. Digital copy
  http://www.nzetc.org/tm/scholarly/tei-WH2Gree.html
  Sources Used
• New Zealand Electronic Text Collection topic page
  http://nzetc.victoria.ac.nz/tm/scholarly/name-001037.html
  Further Reference
• New Zealand Parliament. Parliamentarians in two World Wars
  http://www.parliament.nz/en-NZ/Features/c/4/d/00NZPHomeNews210420101-Parliamentarians-in-two-world-wars.htm
  Further Reference
• Ministry for Culture and Heritage, New Zealand History online. Takapuna War Memorial.
  https://nzhistory.govt.nz/memorial/takapuna-war-memorial
  Further Reference
• Commonwealth War Graves Commission record
  https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-details/2629009
  Sources Used
• Wikidata Entity
  http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q8013643
  Further Reference

Ngā tuhinga

• Dawson, W. (1961). 18 Battalion and Armoured Regiment. Wellington, N.Z.: Department of Internal Affairs, War History Branch.
• Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force. (1941). Nominal Roll Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force No. 1 (Embarkations to 31st March, 1940). Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
  WW2 1: WW2 107
• New Zealand. Parliament. Parliamentary Debates (Hansard). Wellington, N.Z.: Government Printing Office.
  Third Session 1941, 10 June to 13 June, pp 272-280
• The New Zealand Herald
  Death notice:(June?), 1941
• Information kindly provided by family
• Harper, G., Clements, C., & Johns., R. (2019). For King and Other Countries: The New Zealanders Who Fought in Other Services in the First World War. Auckland, New Zealand: Massey University Press.
• Auckland Museum. Roll of Honour, Auckland Province, 1939 - 1945. Auckland War Memorial Museum Library. MS 93/139.
• McClymont, W. (1959). To Greece. Wellington, N.Z.: Department Internal Affairs, War History Branch.
• Davin, D. (1953). Crete. Wellington, N.Z.: Department of Internal Affairs, War History Branch.