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Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Board / Plaque / Tablet
- District
- Angus
- Town
- Kirriemuir
- County
- Tayside
- Country
- Scotland
- Commemoration
- Second World War (1939-1945), VC or GC Recipients
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 85677
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Current location
St Mary's Church
West Hillbank
Kirriemuir
Angus
Tayside
DD8 4HU
Scotland
OS Grid Ref: NO 38330 54370
Denomination: Scottish Episcopal
- Description
- Brass plaque with etched lettering
- Inscription
- +IN MEMORY OF+/CHARLES ANTONY LORD LYELL OF/KINNORDY V.C. CAPTAIN SCOTS GUARDS/BORN 14TH JUNE 1911 KILLED IN ACTION/IN TUNISIA 27TH APRIL 1943
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Names on memorial
- Lyell, Charles Antony
See details - Commemorations
- Second World War (1939-1945)
Total names on memorial: 1
Served and returned: 0
Died: 1
Exact count: yes
Information shown: surname, forenames, rank, regiment, decorations, manner of death, place of death, date of birth, date of death, age, additional
Order of information: Undefined - VC or GC Recipients
Total names on memorial: 1
Served and returned: 0
Died: 1
Exact count: yes
Information shown: surname, forenames, rank, regiment, decorations, manner of death, place of death, date of birth, date of death, age, additional
Order of information: Undefined
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Components
- Plaque
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Brass
- Plaque
- Condition
- Trust fund/Scholarship
- No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A - Reference
- warmemscot.s4.bizhat.com/viewtopic.php?t=9073&mforum=warmemscot
- Citation The citation in the London Gazette of 12th August, 1943, gives the following details; From 22nd April, 1943, Captain the Lord Lyell commanded his company with great courage, ability and cheerfulness. He led it down a slope under heavy mortar fire to repel a German counter-attack on 22nd April, and led it again under heavy fire on 23rd April in order to capture and consolidate a high point, which was held through a very arduous period of shelling, heat and shortage of water. In the evening of 27th April, Lord Lyell's company, while taking part in an attack, was held up by fire from a position which consisted of an 88-millimetre gun and a heavy machine-gun in separate pits. Lord Lyell led four men to attack this position; he was far in front of the others, and destroyed the machine-gun pit with a hand-grenade. Then, aided by covering fire from the only uninjured man of his party, he attacked the 88-millimetre gun pit before its crew could fire more than one shot. He killed a number of them before being overwhelmed and killed himself. The few survivors withdrew and his company was able to advance and take its objective. Lord Lyell's outstanding leadership, gallantry and self-sacrifice enabled his company to carry out its task, which had an important bearing on the success of the battalion and of the brigade.
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