Myles Archibald Lyons (1823–99) was a
Mounted Police
Mounted police are police who patrol on horseback or camelback. Their day-to-day function is typically picturesque or ceremonial, but they are also employed in crowd control because of their mobile mass and height advantage and increasingly in the ...
Trooper stationed at
Swan Hill, Victoria
Swan Hill is a city in the northwest of Victoria, Australia on the Murray Valley Highway and on the south bank of the Murray River, downstream from the junction of the Loddon River. At , Swan Hill had a population of 11,508.
Indigenous Peopl ...
. He was on the
Burke and Wills expedition from the
Murray River to
Coopers Creek, in September 1860.
He and
Alexander MacPherson became lost in the desert and were saved by a
Barkinji
The Paakantyi, or Barkindji or Barkandji, are an Australian Aboriginal tribal group of the Darling River (known to them as the Baaka) basin in Far West New South Wales, Australia.
Name
The ethnonym Paakantyi means "River people", formed fro ...
guide called Dick.
Dick ''accompanied Trooper Lyons and Alexander MacPherson when they set out from Menindie to convey despatches to Burke. When they became lost and desperately short of provisions and water, Dick conveyed them to the care of local Aborigines. He then returned to camp, walking for eight days after having run his horse into the ground.''
Lyons died in
Eltham, Victoria
Eltham () is a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 20 km north-east of the Central Business District, located within the Shire of Nillumbik local government area. Eltham recorded a population of 18,847 at the 2021 census.
Eltham is ...
on 19 August 1899, aged 75.
Myles Archibald Lyons
burkeandwills.net.au.
References
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Explorers of Australia
Explorers from Melbourne
Year of birth missing
1899 deaths
Burke and Wills expedition