Ivan Lyon
Z Special Unit, World War II, Military intelligence, Operation Rimau, Gordon Highlanders
Herausgegeben: Adriaan, Germain
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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Lieutenant-Colonel Ivan Lyon DSO, MBE (17 August 1915 16 October 1944) was a British soldier and military intelligence agent during Second World War. As a member of Z Special Unit Lyon took part in a number of commando operations against the Japanese and was subsequently killed during Operation Rimau while attempting to infiltrate Singapore harbour and destroy Japanese shipping there in 1944.Born on 17 August 1915, Lyon was the son of a Brigadier-General and was educa...
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Lieutenant-Colonel Ivan Lyon DSO, MBE (17 August 1915 16 October 1944) was a British soldier and military intelligence agent during Second World War. As a member of Z Special Unit Lyon took part in a number of commando operations against the Japanese and was subsequently killed during Operation Rimau while attempting to infiltrate Singapore harbour and destroy Japanese shipping there in 1944.Born on 17 August 1915, Lyon was the son of a Brigadier-General and 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.
