BORN HULL 1886. SON OF THE LATE ARTHUR LYON & CHRISTINA LAVINIA LYON. THIS WAS HIS ARMY RECORDS AND CWGC ADDRESS. BEFORE THE WAR HE WORKED AS A DOCK LABOURER. HE SHARED THIS ADDRESS WITH EIGHT BROTHERS AND SISTERS. ENLISTED 25/4/1916. EMBARKED TO FRANCE ON 17/07/1916 TO JOIN THE 13TH EYR. POSTED TO THE 8TH EYR, 23/08/1916. KILLED IN ACTION, AT SERRE, ON 13/11/1916, AGED 30. HE WAS UNMARRIED AND LEFT NO CHILDREN.
HE IS BURIED AT BERTRANCOURT MILITARY CEMETERY, SOMME, FRANCE. HIS GRAVE INSCRIPTION, READS, “ONLY THOSE WHO HAVE LOVED AND LOST CAN UNDERSTAND WHAT THE PARTING COST”.
First name:
ARTHUR
Regiment:
Military Number:
22572
Rank:
Private
Date Died
13/11/1916
Place died:
BERTRANCOURT MILITARY CEMETERY, SOMME, FRANCE
Age:
30
60 , WOODHOUSE STREET, HULL, EAST YORKSHIRE, UK
Place Buried
