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He was a son of Anthony Lyster of Stillorgan Park, Co. Dublin, and Marcia, the sixth daughter of James Tate. He took a commission in the British East India Company's army on 20 September 1848 and was promoted major on 19 January 1864, brevet lieutenant colonel on 26 March 1870, and brevet colonel on 25 November 1877. He was Mentioned in Despatches while in command of 3rd Goorkha Regiment at the Battle of Ahmed Khel during the Second Anglo-Afghan War, and appointed Companion of the Order of the Bath on 22 February 1881. He was promoted lieutenant general on 1 September 1891, and retired from the army on 1 July 1892. He died in London on 1 February 1922.
His VC is on display in the Lord Ashcroft Gallery at the Imperial War Museum, London.
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