1. Charles Lyon's father was a cotton manufacturer who ran a mill at Rocester and was a Justice of the Peace.
14 Facts About Charles Lyon
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The 2nd Battalion was a regular battalion and was at the time on active service in South Africa during the Second Boer War, where Charles Lyon joined the battalion and served with it throughout the war, being mentioned in dispatches in 1901.
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Charles Lyon was promoted to lieutenant on 19 January 1901, while in South Africa.
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Charles Lyon remained with the 2nd Battalion when it was posted to India in 1903 where he became adjutant and was promoted to captain.
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In 1912 Charles Lyon was seconded as a student to the Staff College, Camberley Upon leaving the Staff College, Charles Lyon was posted to the 1st Battalion, North Staffords which was then serving in Ireland; and he was still with it at the outbreak of the First World War in mid-1914.
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The battalion mobilised in August 1914 and went to France in September, but Charles Lyon only remained with it for another month, until October 1914, when he was attached to the general staff as a staff captain.
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Charles Lyon was awarded the Distinguished Service Order in the New Year's Honours List for 1916, appointed a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George in January 1918, and made a Companion of the Order of the Bath; as well as two Belgian decorations, being made an Officier de l'Ordre de la Couronne and receiving the Croix de guerre.
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Post-war, Charles Lyon served as Assistant Director of Quartering at the War Office.
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Charles Lyon finished his Army career as Assistant Quarter Master General, retiring on half pay in March 1927 with the honorary rank of Brigadier-General.
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Between his return from South Africa and his departure for India Charles Lyon played two first-class cricket matches for Derbyshire in the 1902 season.
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Less than a week later, Charles Lyon made his only other first-class appearance, against Nottinghamshire.
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Charles Lyon was a right-handed batsman and made six runs in his two matches.
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Charles Lyon married Gwenlliam Mary Campbell, a member of the Minton pottery family.
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Charles Lyon died at Ightfield in 1959, leaving an endowment, the Charles Harry Lyon Endowment, managed by the charity Ightfield with Calverhall Village Hall and Playing Field, to manage the land and buildings held by the committee for the villagers, clubs and wider community of Ightfield.