SON OF ROBERT AND JANE HEDLEY SCOTT LYLE, STRATHCULM, HELENSBURGH. BORN AT GREENOCK. Hedley Lyle was in Argentina when war broke out and at once returned and enlisted. His job at the front was with the Pioneers wiring and clearing trenches.

There is a memorial tablet in St Michael's Church, Helensburgh

Remembered at Merchiston. HERE Cousin of Major Frank Lyle. Educated at Greenock Collegiate and Merchiston. A Hedley Robert Lyle was killed in 1944 - presumably named after this Hedley Robert.

Major T.G.Taylor: “Since May 11 he has done some magnificent work wiring and clearing trenches under very trying conditions with an absolute disregard of personal danger.

“None could have set his men a higher example of fearlessness nor encouraged them more in what is always a dangerous and difficult task.

“If it is any very small consolation to you, I may tell you he was killed absolutely instantaneously by machine gun fire, and he can have known nothing.

“He was buried in the Military Cemetery at Vermeilles, when as many of us as could be spared were present and all his platoon, whose respect and affection he had won to such a marked degree.

“Will you accept not only my own sincerest sympathy in your great loss, which is also our loss, but also the sympathy of all his brother officers and that of his platoon, who have lost a very brave and capable leader.”

The Rev Charles Lamont, chaplain of the forces, wrote: “I need not assure you how we all liked him.

“He was not only such good company in the mess, but was utterly fearless, and the essence of kindness to his men. He gave his life for a glorious cause.

“He was buried in the British Military Cemetery at Vermeilles, and a wooden cross was placed at his grave. It was a military funeral, and all the officers that could be were present along with the men of his own platoon.”

Newspaper Clippings relating to Hedley Robert Lyle

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