Major Bert Lyon
27th Armoured (Sherbrooke Fusilier) Regiment

A farewell party was given in the Officer’s Mess last night for Major B.D. Lyon who will be leaving soon to return to Canada. He was presented with a silver cigarette box by Major D.W. Beaudry, who in a few well chosen words expressed our regrets and assured him that our best wishes would go with him.

(War diary, 13 March 1943)

Born on 2 June 1905 in Island Brook, Quebec, Bertram Dawson Lyon attended McGill University and owned a Sherbrooke tobacco shop. In 1934, he was subject of an odd prosecution by the Crown, which argued that a whiffle-board made his shop a “common gambling house.” The judge immediately dismissed the case ruling that “the machine was in itself no more a gambling device than a billiard table or bowling alley.”

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