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{{Personnel
|Surname and forenames=Lyell Alan
|Army number=254619
|Rank=Captain
|Date of birth=04-Nov-17 in India (his mother dying shortly afterwards).
|Age=89 at the time of his death (two days before his 90th birthday).
|Unit=Joined the Royal Army Medical Corps - granted an Emergency Commission as a Lieutenant 5/12/1942.  Posted 187 Field Anbulance.  Attached to The Durham Light Infantry 6/3/1944. Posted to the 11th Battalion DLI.  Wounded 19/8/1944.  Invalided out of the Army.
|Company/Battery=Battalion HQ.
|Task or role=Medical Officer.
|Joined Brigade=06-Mar-44.
|Promotions=W/S Captain 5/12/1943.
|Wounded=19/8/1944 in the knee- apparently by "friendly fire".
|Died/Killed in action=Died 2/11/2007 at Bishopton, Renfrewshire.
|Home address=Battalion records have his number as 25369.  Educated Repton and Pembroke College, Cambridge.  Registered as a Medical Student 23/10/1936.  Studied at St Thomas's Hospital (MB ChB 1942). Lived at Abbeyside, Newburgh, Aberdeenshire,  87 Cambridge Road, Great Shelford, Cambridge,  10 Coltbridge Terrace, Edinburgh 12,  349 Great West Rd Aberdeen.  Worked as a Consulting Dermatologist, Aberdeen.
|Source table=11DLI
}}


To read Dr Lyell's Obituary, which includes a photograph of him, please click [https://www.rcpe.ac.uk/obituary/dr-alan-lyell-frcp-edin here].

T read a bried description of "Lyell's Syndrome" please click [https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16015071 here].