Lieutenant Commander Herbert Inglis Nigel LYON, (Mentioned in Despatches) Royal Navy. The beloved son of Admiral Herbert and Frances Violet Lyon who died for his country in the Great War while gallantly performing his duty in command of a destroyer in the North Sea on Trafalgar day having previously fought in action off Coronel, Falkland Islands and Jutland. Born 4th May 1886, died 21st October 1917 at sea on. HMS Marmion. In 1901 he was a Naval Cadet aged 14 and serving on HMS Britannia, (Training Ship) Dartmouth.
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(Wills and Admin, Ancestry) He lived at Stoke Cottage, Devonport and died at sea 21st October 1917. His effects went to his father, Vice Admiral Herbert Lyon, Royal Navy, retired.
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London Gazette dated 7th September 1915.
Admiralty, 2nd September, 1915. Lieutenant Herbert Inglis Nigel Lyon has been promoted to the rank of Lieutenant Commander in His Majesty's Fleet. Dated 3rd September, 1915.
(CWGC data) Lieutenant Commander Herbert Inglis Nigel LYON, H.M.S. Marmion, Royal Navy. (Mentioned in Despatches) died at sea on the 21st October 1917 aged 31. Son of Admiral Herbert Lyon, C.B., and Frances Violet Lyon, of Stoke Cottage, Stoke, Devonport. Fought in the battles of Coronel, Falkland Islands and Jutland. His father also fell. He is commemorated on his parents memorial in Ta Braxia Cemetery, Malta and also on the Plymouth Naval Memorial, Devon.
