Early Life
Born on 17 August 1915, Lyon was the second son of Brigadier-General Francis Lyon, DSO, CMG, Royal Artillery, a senior British Army general staff officer during First World War and the grandson of Colonel Francis Lyon, Royal Horse Artillery, who had fought in the Indian Mutiny. He was educated at Harrow School and Sandhurst. He was commissioned into the Gordon Highlanders in 1935 and was posted to Singapore in 1936. Lyon spent much of his spare time sailing around South East Asia. In 1939, he married Gabrielle Bouvier, the daughter of a French official in French Indochina and fathered a son, Clive.
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