John William Lyman
Grocery errand boy (C. 1911)
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John William Lyman was the son of John William Lyman and Edith Astle who married at Nottingham in 1880.
Their children included: Edwin William (b.1879), Kate Maud (b.1885), Elizabeth Ann (b.1890), Ernest (b.1894), John William (b.1898) and Alfred George (b.1901).
The Lyman family lived at: 8 Ivanhoe Terrace, St Mary’s Parish, Nottingham [C.1891]; 26 Mabel Street, Meadows [C.1901]; 23 Palin Street, Birkin Avenue, Hyson Green [C.1911 & CWGC].
Edith Lyman died at Nottingham, aged 54, in 1915. John William Lyman senior, who by the end of his working career was a boot repairer working for himself, died at Nottingham in 1940, aged 80.
He enlisted at Derby he was killed in action on 16th August 1917 as his body was never recovered his name was added to the Tyne Cot Memorial, West Vlaanderen, Belgium.
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Photo of John William Lyman
Tyne Cot Memorial courtesy of the cwgc