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Kenneth Brogden Lyon

In memory of:

Flying Officer Kenneth Brogden Lyon

July 22, 1944

Military Service

Service Number:

J/25605

Age:

27

Force:

Air Force

Unit:

Royal Canadian Air Force

Division:

150 Sqdn.

Additional Information

Son of W. H. and Mary Lyon, of Thorndale, Ontario, Canada.

Commemorated on Page 370 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance. Request a copy of this page. Download high resolution copy of this page.

Burial Information

Cemetery:

MALTA MEMORIAL
Malta

Grave Reference:

Panel 15, Column 2.

Location:

The MALTA MEMORIAL is situated in the area of Floriana and is easily identified by the Golden Eagle which surmounts the column. It stands outside the King's Gate, the main entrance to Valletta. The Memorial takes the form of a column fifteen metres high of travertine marble from Tivoli in the Sabine Hills near Rome, incised with a a light reticulated pattern and surmounted by a gilded bronze eagle two metres high. The column stands on a circular base around which the names are commemorated on bronze panels. The MALTA MEMORIAL, built on a site generously provided by the Government of Malta, commemorates those who lost their lives whilst serving with the Commonwealth Air Forces flying from bases in Austria, Italy, Sicily, islands of the Adriatic and Mediterranean, Malta, Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco, West Africa, Yugoslavia and Gibraltar, and who have no known grave. The bravery of the people of the island of Malta between the years 1940 - 1942 was honoured with the unique award of the George Cross.

Information courtesy of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

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  • Memorial– Flying Officer Kenneth Brogden Lyon is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens

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    Memorial – Flying Officer Kenneth Brogden Lyon is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
  • Memorial– Flying Officer Kenneth Brogden Lyon is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens

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    Memorial – Flying Officer Kenneth Brogden Lyon is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
  • Memorial– Father J P Lardie's comments as inscribed on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens

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    Memorial – Father J P Lardie's comments as inscribed on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
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    Photo of KENNETH BROGDEN LYON – Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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  • Photo of Kenneth Brogden Lyon– Lyon, Kenneth Brogden - Flying Officer. Born 26th January, 1918, at Londesboro, Ont. Educated at Blyth Public and Continuation School, and Clinton Collegiate Institute. Entered the service of the Bank 11th January, 1937. Served at branches in Ontario. Enlisted 20th June, 1942, from Forest in R.C.A.F. Pilot Officer in April, 1943; Flying Officer in January, 1944. Trained at Toronto, Camp Borden, Belleville and Malton, Ont. Overseas in June, 1943. Served in Italy and Eastern Europe. Reported missing on operational flight from Italy to bomb oil refinery in Bohemia on night of 2l/22 July, 1944. The aircraft crashed and exploded in Moravia and the body of only one of the crew was identified and buried. Officially presumed dead in August, 1945. From a memorial booklet prepared by the Canadian Bank of Commerce.

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    Photo of Kenneth Brogden Lyon – Lyon, Kenneth Brogden - Flying Officer. Born 26th January, 1918, at Londesboro, Ont. Educated at Blyth Public and Continuation School, and Clinton Collegiate Institute. Entered the service of the Bank 11th January, 1937. Served at branches in Ontario. Enlisted 20th June, 1942, from Forest in R.C.A.F. Pilot Officer in April, 1943; Flying Officer in January, 1944. Trained at Toronto, Camp Borden, Belleville and Malton, Ont. Overseas in June, 1943. Served in Italy and Eastern Europe. Reported missing on operational flight from Italy to bomb oil refinery in Bohemia on night of 2l/22 July, 1944. The aircraft crashed and exploded in Moravia and the body of only one of the crew was identified and buried. Officially presumed dead in August, 1945. From a memorial booklet prepared by the Canadian Bank of Commerce.

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