LYON, Harry Clive
Service Number: | 1254 |
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Enlisted: | 5 July 1915 |
Last Rank: | Sergeant |
Last Unit: | 4th Light Horse Regiment |
Born: | Essendon, Victoria, Australia, 1894 |
Home Town: | Moonee Ponds, Moonee Valley, Victoria |
Schooling: | Essendon State School No 483, Victoria, Australia |
Occupation: | Clerk |
Memorials: | Essendon State School No 483 Roll of Honor, Moonee Ponds Methodist Church HB |
World War 1 Service
5 Jul 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 1254, 4th Infantry Battalion | |
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27 Sep 1915: | Involvement Private, 1254, 4th Light Horse Regiment, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '2' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Hororata embarkation_ship_number: A20 public_note: '' | |
27 Sep 1915: | Embarked Private, 1254, 4th Light Horse Regiment, HMAT Hororata, Melbourne | |
15 Jun 1919: | Involvement AIF WW1, Sergeant |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Faithe Jones
Inspector H. U. Lyon has received letters from his two sons, both of whom are members of the Australian Light Horse. Trooper Gordon Lyon, after 13 weeks in the trenches at Gallipoli, has been invalided to Heliopolis, Egypt. He is suffering from shrapnel wounds and shock, and on arrival in Egypt he was in hospital for six weeks. Unfortunately for the young soldier, enteric fever supervened on his other illness, and he has been sent to Port Said, and later on expects to either go to England or return home. Trooper Clive Lyon has arrived in Egypt after what he describes as a good passage. When he arrived, with the 4th Reinforcements of the Light Horse, he made inquiries for his brother and succeeded in seeing Gordon in hospital. He found him in unsatisfactory state of health, his temperature when seen, owing to the fever he was being treated for, registering 103 deg. The patient shortly afterwards showed improvement, and was sent on to Port Said, as stated above.