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Name:
Nationality: Rank: Regiment: Age: Born : Date of Death: Additional information: Marital status : Schooling: Occupation : Award : Cemetery : |
Lyon Walter Scott Stuart
Scottish Lieutenant 9th Bn. Royal Scots 28 1886 8 may 1915 Son of Walter F. K. and Isabella R. Lyon, of Tantallon Lodge, North Berwick Educated at Haileybury School and the University of Edinburgh * Cadet Battalion 1902-05 * Student of Law 1909-12 Advocate Ypres Menin Gate Memorial Panel 11 |
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Military footsteps
April 1910 February 1913 1914-1915 8 may 1915 |
Joined the Royal Scots Promoted Lieutenant Promoted Staff Captain , Lothian Brigade Proceeded to France Killed in action He was in the dugouts in Potijze Wood just 200 yards from teh firing line. The shelling was so fierce that trees were torn up by the roots and the tops sliced by shrapnel. The stream of wounded from the wood was continuous and he was among the dead. * One of the War Poets 1915 - Easter at Ypres In a Fire Trench |
Haileybury School
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University of Edinburgh
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