BORN HULL, MYTON 1894. SON OF LAURENCE & ELLEN EMILY LYON, OF 6 PEASE PLACE, PEASE STREET, HULL AND 29 KIMBERLEY STREET, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESS).
A FORMER POLICE CONSTABLE FOR THE NORTH EASTERN RAILWAY. STATIONED IN HULL. AFTER THE DEATH OF HIS MOTHER, HE MADE HIS HOME WITH HIS BROTHER AND SISTER AT 19 QUEENS AVENUE, BARTON, LINCOLNSHIRE.
HE ENLISTED IN WEST HULL, DECEMBER 1914. SERVED AS A DISPATCH RIDER AND GUNNER, FOR 251ST ROYAL FIELD ARTILLERY. KILLED IN ACTION, ON 14/08/1917, AGED 24. HIS ARMY EFFECTS WERE LEFT TO HIS FATHER LAURENCE, AT 29 KIMBERLEY STREET, HULL.
HIS DEATH WAS REPORTED IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL, ON 15/09/1917. HE WAS WAS ONE OF FIVE NER POLICEMEN KILLED FROM HULL.
HE IS BURIED AT LONDON CEMETERY, NEUVILLE-VITASSE, PAS DE CALAIS, FRANCE. HIS GRAVE INSCRIPTION, READS, “ONE OF THE BEST”
HIS MIDDLE NAME IS SPELT HILERBY AND HELLERBY IN DIFFERENT RECORDS.
