Private Robert Lyall

Private Robert Foster Lyall, Army Service Corps, attached 74th Siege Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery. He died from wounds on 20th August 1918 aged 30. during the ” Advance to Victory”.  He had been born in Hutton and was the son of Robert and Ellen Lyall of Spital House Lodge, Hutton. He was the brother of William Lyall and died about 3 weeks after his brother. He is buried in Ligny-St-Flochel British Cemetery, Averdoingt, France. The Siege Batteries used heavy howitzers to destroy enemy trenches and gun emplacements with their plunging fire. The example shown can be seen in the Imperial War Museum. His Headstone is inscribed ” He Died That We Might Live. Ever Remembered By Father And Mother”. He had been employed as a ploughman and farm steward at Nethermains farm, Chirnside when he enlisted in 1917.