LYONS, Reginald Laurence
| Service Number: | 4306 |
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| Enlisted: | 29 September 1915 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 5th Machine Gun Company |
| Born: | Redfern, New South Wales, Australia, 29 August 1893 |
| Home Town: | Surry Hills, City of Sydney, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Cleveland Street Superior Public School, New South Wales, Australia |
| Occupation: | Book binder |
| Died: | Died of wounds, Belgium, 4 October 1917, aged 24 years |
| Cemetery: |
Nine Elms British Cemetery Plot III, Row D, Grave No. 9. THIRD ELDEST DEARLY BELOVED SON OF MR. & MRS. FRED LYONS "AT REST" |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour |
World War 1 Service
| 29 Sep 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 4306, 19th Infantry Battalion | |
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| 11 Mar 1916: | Involvement Private, 4306, 19th Infantry Battalion, Third Ypres, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '13' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Orsova embarkation_ship_number: A67 public_note: '' | |
| 11 Mar 1916: | Embarked Private, 4306, 19th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Orsova, Sydney | |
| 4 Oct 1917: | Involvement Private, 4306, 5th Machine Gun Company, Third Ypres, --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: 4306 awm_unit: 5th Australian Machine Gun Company awm_rank: Private awm_died_date: 1917-10-04 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Stephen Brooks
Reg. L. Lyons, was the son of Frederick and Maria Elizabeth Lyons of Surry Hills, Sydney, New South Wales. He was reported to have been was an all-round amateur sport. As a member of the Swift Bicycle Club be won several races. He was a swimmer, a rower, and a member of the South Sydney Federal F.C., and he worked as a book binder.
He and his two brothers all enlisted in the 19th Battalion during late 1915.
He arrived in France during May 1916 and was taken on strength of the 5th Machine Gun Company during September 1916. He was given two weeks leave to England during August 1917 before he was mortally wounded in Belgium on 4 October 1917.
The Chaplin of the 44th Casualty Clearing Station wrote to the Red Cross, “He was admitted on the 4th of October and died the same day from a most severe wound in the abdomen. He was buried in the Nine Elms Cemetery near Poperinghe.”
Reginald’s older brother, 3964 Pte. Frederick Norman Lyons 55th Battalion AIF, had died of influenza in France on 11 July 1916, aged 26.
Another younger brother, 4569 Pte. Raymond Alfred Lyons 19th Battalion AIF, was returned to Australia for family reasons during 1918, after two years’ service. His mother, Maria, having lost two sons, wrote directly to General Birdwood pleading for her surviving son to be returned to Australia. Birdwood quickly obliged and Alfred Lyons left England August 1918.
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