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Ivan Lyon
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.
==Early life==
Born on 17 August 1915, Lyon was the second son of Brigadier-General Francis Lyon, CMG, DSO, 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 and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst,〔Thompson and Macklin 2002, pp. 18–19.p〕 and in 1935 was commissioned into the Gordon Highlanders before being posted to Singapore in 1936.〔Thompson and Macklin 2002, pp. 19–20.〕 While there, 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.〔Thompson and Macklin 2002, pp. 25–27.〕
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