Attested 27 August 1914 -Medal Index Card entered France 19 May 1915 with 2nd Battalion East Yorkshire Regiment – Discharged 24 November 1917 B1 sickness – Silver War Badge list 0/414/1 – Silver War Badge number 283216 – aged 29 years – Died 20 October 1918 – Both John Lyons and his wife died of Inflenza in the Workhouse Infirmary leaving 5 children under the age of nine years the remains inturred with full military honours at Killingbeck Cemetery Yorkshire Evening Post 06 November 1918 – Possible Noncom