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Second Lieutenant Robert Victor Lyons

 

 

Second Lieutenant Robert Victor Lyons, 23rd Entrenching Battalion, Royal Irish Rifles, formerly a Private in the North Irish Horse (Service No. 1581), late of the 14th Battalion, Royal Irish Rifles. Son of Ruth Lyons of Rosetta Park, Belfast, and the late Thomas H Lyons. Enlisted with the North Irish Horse in late May 1915 and arrived in France on 12 January 1916 as part of E Squadron. The picture above shows Lyons newly arrived in France with a men from E Squadron (seated, second from the viewer's left). Lyons was killed in action on 24 March 1918, aged 21. As he has no known grave, Lyons is commemorated on Pozieres Memorial, Somme, France, Panels 74-76.

 

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Memorial panel image kindly provided by Richard Evans. See his website Nelson, Glamorgan and the Great War http://www.nelson-ww1-memorial.org.uk. Image of E Squadron troops from the Belfast Evening Telegraph, 21 February 1916, kindly provided by Nigel Henderson (see Fitzroy Presbyterian Church: Wartime Service and Sacrifice).