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ARTHUR STANTON LYON
BORN HORNSEA 10/07/1882. ONLY SON OF CHARLES EDWARD AUGUSTUS LYON (1850-1931) & BETSIE MILCAR RAFTON CHEW (1850-1917) LYON, OF EASTGATE HORNSEA (1911 CENSUS). SON OF A HULL SHIPING BROKER. HE HAD FIVE SISTERS.
EDUCATED AT HYMER COLLEGE, HULL. HE WORKED AS A BANK CLERK, IN WISBECH, CAMBRIDGESHIRE (1911 CENSUS). HIS PROBATE ADDRESS WAS 58, BEAUFORT ROAD, BIRMINGHAM.
HE ENLISTED IN SEPT 1915. SERVED AS A PRIVATE, WITH 26TH LONDON REGIMENT (BANKERS BATTALION). KILLED BETWEEN 4TH & 10TH OCTOBER 1916, AGED 34. HE IS COMMEMORATED ON THE THIEPVAL MEMORIAL, SOMME, FRANCE.
HIS DEATH WAS REPORTED IN THE HULL DAILY NEWS, 21 OCT 1916.
HE LEFT £355 IN HIS WILL TO HIS FATHER, CHARLES E. A. LYON.
HIS NAME IS RECORDED ON HYMERS COLLEGE MEMORIAL, HULL.
HE IS COMMEMORATED ON THE FAMILY GRAVE, SOUTHGATE CEMETERY HORNSEA.
Born on 10 July 1882, Son of Charles E. A. Lyon (Hull shipping agent,) and Betsie Lyon, of Hornsea, Yorkshire. Family grave Southgate Cemetery Hornsea East Riding of Yorkshire ; Aged 17 years old, he went to work for National Provincial Bank of England as an apprentice at its Leeds branch. In October 1901 he transferred to Leeds New Briggate branch, where he completed his apprenticeship. He moved to Ripon branch as a clerk in July 1903; Stockton-on-Tees branch in April 1904; Thornaby-on-Tees branch in December 1904; Guisborough in March 1907; Putney in July 1907; Wisbech in October 1907; and Birmingham Frederick Street in July 1912. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/26th_(Service)_Battalion%2C_Royal_Fusiliers_(Bankers)
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