Norman Stanley Lyons

Service number: 5852

Rank: Private

Unit: 20th Battalion, then 5th Machine Gun Battalion

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Source: National Archives of Australia

Norman Lyons was born at Summer Hill in 1895. He was a life saver prior to enlisting. He enlisted on 11 May 1916 giving as next of kin his wife at 2 Pittwater Road, Manly.

He embarked on the Ceramic, with his brother, on 7 October 1916. He served in France with the 20th Battalion from February 1917, then transferred to the 5th Machine Gun Battalion.

He returned to Australia on the Lancashireon 7 February 1919, again, by coincidence, with his brother.