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{{Infobox military person
| name = Harry Lyster
| image = Lieutenant General Harry Hammon Lyster VC, CB in about 1900.jpg
| birth_date = {{birth date|1830|12|24|df=y}}
| birth_place = [[Blackrock, Dublin]], [[Ireland]]
|death_place = London, England
|placeofburial= St James the Less Churchyard, Stubbing
| death_date = 1 February 1922 (aged 91)
|allegiance= {{flagcountry|United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland}}
|branch=[[Bengal Army]]<br>{{army|British India|23px}}
|battles= [[Indian Mutiny]]<br />[[Second Anglo-Afghan War]]
*[[Battle of Ahmed Khel]]
|awards=[[Victoria Cross]]<br />[[Companion of the Order of the Bath]]<br />[[Mentioned in Despatches]] five times
|relations=[[Hamilton Lyster Reed]] VC (nephew)
}}
[[Lieutenant General (United Kingdom)|Lieutenant General]] '''Harry Hammon Lyster''' [[Victoria Cross|VC]], [[Order of the Bath|CB]] (24 December 1830 – 1 February 1922) was an [[Irish people|Irish]] recipient of the [[Victoria Cross]], the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to [[United Kingdom|British]] and [[Commonwealth of Nations|Commonwealth]] forces.

==Details==
He was 27 years old and a [[lieutenant]] in the [[72nd Bengal Native Infantry]], [[Bengal Army]], during the [[Indian Mutiny]] when the following deed took place, for which he was awarded the VC. The citation read:
{{quote|''War Office, 21st October, 1859.''

THE Queen has been graciously pleased to signify Her intention to confer the decoration of the
Victoria Cross on the undermentioned Officers and Private Soldier of Her Majesty's Indian Military Forces, whose claims to the same have been submitted for Her Majesty's approval, on account of Acts of Bravery performed by them in India, as recorded against their several names ; viz. :

[...]

72nd Bengal Native Infantry, Lieutenant Harry Hammon Lyster

Date of Act of Bravery, 23rd May, 1858

For gallantly charging and breaking, singly, a skirmishing square of the retreating Rebel
Army from Calpee, and killing two or three Sepoys, in the conflict. Major-General Sir Hugh Henry Rose, G.C.B., reports that this Act of Bravery was witnessed by himself and by Lieutenant Colonel Gall, C.B., of the 14th Light Dragoons.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=22318|page=3792|date=21 October 1859}}</ref>}}

Other despatches from [[Hugh Henry Rose]] describes how on 31 January 1858 at [[Barodia]], when Lyster had been acting as Rose's interpreter, Lyster was wounded when fighting a nephew of [[Mahomed Fazil Khan]], receiving a "deep sword cut on [the] inner part of [his] right forearm." He killed Khan's nephew during the fight.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=22138|page=2343|date=11 May 1858}}</ref><ref>{{London Gazette|issue=22330|page=4475|date=29 November 1859}}</ref>

==Further information==
In 1847-48 he served as a [[Special constable#United Kingdom|special constable]] in [[London]] during the [[Chartism#1848 petition|Chartist riots]]. He took a commission in the British East India Company's army on 20 September 1848 and was promoted [[major (United Kingdom)|major]] on 19 January 1864,<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=22809|page=263|date=19 January 1864}}</ref> [[brevet (military)|brevet]] [[Lieutenant colonel (United Kingdom)|lieutenant colonel]] on 26 March 1870,<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=23636|pages=3479–3480|date=22 July 1870}}</ref> and brevet [[colonel (United Kingdom)|colonel]] on 25 November 1877.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=25026|page=5087|date=14 October 1881}}</ref> He was [[Mentioned in Despatches]] while in command of [[3 Gorkha Rifles|3rd Goorkha Regiment]] at the [[Battle of Ahmed Khel]] during the [[Second Anglo-Afghan War]],<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=24869|page=4200|date=30 July 1880}}</ref> and appointed [[Companion of the Order of the Bath]] on 22 February 1881.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=24944|page=975|date=1 March 1881}}</ref> He was promoted [[Lieutenant General (United Kingdom)|lieutenant general]] on 1 September 1891,<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=26203|page=4990|date=22 September 1891}}</ref> and retired from the army on 1 July 1892.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=26308|page=4128|date=19 July 1892}}</ref>

Harry Hammon Lyster is mentioned disparagingly by [[Harry Flashman|Flashman]] in ''[[Flashman in the Great Game]]'' by [[George MacDonald Fraser]].

His VC is on display in the Lord Ashcroft Gallery at the [[Imperial War Museum]], London.

==Family==
He married twice: to Caroline Matilda Davis in 1865; and, following her death in 1895, to Ada Emily Cole in 1901. He died in London on 1 February 1922.

He was the son of Anthony Lyster (1797-1880) of [[Stillorgan]] Park, [[County Dublin]], and Marcia, the sixth daughter of James Tate of Ballintaggart House, Colbinstown, [[County Kildare]]. Marcia Tate's mother Maria Stratford was a daughter of [[John Stratford, 3rd Earl of Aldborough]]. See also: [[Lister (surname)]].

==References==
{{reflist}}
'''Listed in order of publication year '''
*Denny, Revd HLL. ''A History of the Family of Lister or Lyster''. Ballantyne Hanson & Co., Edinburgh (1913)
*''[[The Register of the Victoria Cross]]'' (1981, 1988 and 1997)
*{{cite journal|first=Brian D. H.|last=Clarke|title=A register of awards to Irish-born officers and men|journal=[[The Irish Sword]]|volume=XVI|issue=64|pages=185–287|year=1986}}
*''[[Ireland's VCs]]'' {{ISBN|1-899243-00-3}} (Dept of Economic Development, 1995)
*''[[Monuments to Courage]]'' (David Harvey, 1999)
*''[[Irish Winners of the Victoria Cross]]'' (Richard Doherty & David Truesdale, 2000)

==External links==
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20041214215530/http://www.homeusers.prestel.co.uk/stewart/berkshir.htm Location of grave and VC medal] ''([[Berkshire]])''

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[[Category:Irish expatriates in India]]
[[Category:Irish expatriates in the United Kingdom]]
[[Category:People from Blackrock, Dublin]]
[[Category:Irish recipients of the Victoria Cross]]
[[Category:British Indian Army generals]]
[[Category:British East India Company Army officers]]
[[Category:Companions of the Order of the Bath]]
[[Category:Indian Rebellion of 1857 recipients of the Victoria Cross]]
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