LYONS, Arthur
| Service Number: | 443 |
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| Enlisted: | 18 August 1914, Pontville, Tasmania |
| Last Rank: | Driver |
| Last Unit: | 3rd Light Horse Regiment |
| Born: | Bracknell, Tasmania, 1895 |
| Home Town: | Westbury, Meander Valley, Tasmania |
| Schooling: | Liffey State School |
| Occupation: | Labourer |
| Died: | Died of wounds - abdomen, At sea on board HS Nexassa, Gallipoli, Dardanelles, Turkey, 15 September 1915 |
| Cemetery: |
No known grave - "Known Unto God" No known grave, buried at sea Chaplain C.C. Hamilton officiated |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Bracknell WWI Honour Roll, Liffey State School Roll of Honour Memorial, Lone Pine Memorial to the Missing, Westbury War Memorial |
World War 1 Service
| 18 Aug 1914: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Driver, 443, 3rd Light Horse Regiment, Pontville, Tasmania | |
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| 20 Oct 1914: | Involvement Private, 443, 3rd Light Horse Regiment, ANZAC / Gallipoli, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '1' embarkation_place: Hobart embarkation_ship: HMAT Geelong embarkation_ship_number: A2 public_note: '' | |
| 20 Oct 1914: | Embarked Private, 443, 3rd Light Horse Regiment, HMAT Geelong, Hobart | |
| 15 Sep 1915: | Wounded AIF WW1, Driver, 443, 3rd Light Horse Regiment, ANZAC / Gallipoli, Gunshot wound to the abdomen | |
| 15 Sep 1915: | Involvement Driver, 443, ANZAC / Gallipoli, --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: 443 awm_unit: 3rd Battalion Light Horse Regiment awm_rank: Driver awm_died_date: 1915-09-15 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Sharyn Roberts
Son of William and Lucy Lyons of Westbury, Tasmania. Brother of William Lyons who returned to Australia on 25 September 1919 having served with the Provost Corps
Sympathetic expressions of regret were heard frequently (writes a Westbury correspondent) when it became known that Private Arthur Lyons had succumbed to wounds received at the front. The deceased and his brother William (who has been invalided to London) were amongst the first to offer their services on the outbreak of war. Light-hearted, happy go lucky ''Nugget,' a name by which he was familiarly known to his many friends, was a typical colonial being equally at home with, the horse, a gun, or the many other parts which are components of an Australian. The wholehearted sympathy of the district has gone out to his bereaved parents and relations, for the loss sustained of such a promising youth, scarcely out of his teens, and none is offered more earnestly than those of the writer. In addition to having the sympathy of their legion of friends, it is certainly some consolation for Mr and Mrs Lyons to know that their beloved soldier boy shed his blood and gave up his young life for the needs of his country and the protection and preservation of the liberties and homes of every one of us, thereby sharing with his many comrades who have also fallen on the battlefield unperishable fame on this earth, and we can confidently say eternal happiness in the realms of everlasting bliss in the great hereafter.
Medals: 1914-15 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal
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