page_title: Ivan Lyon
section_title: Operation Jaywick
hierarchical_section_title: Ivan Lyon / Military career / Operation Jaywick
caption_attribution_description: BRISBANE, QLD. 1944. AFTER THE RETURN FROM Z FORCE'S OPERATION JAYWICK, THREE OF THE SHIP'S COMPANY OF THE KRAIT ENJOY A BEER. LEFT TO RIGHT: LIEUTENANT R. C. PAGE, AIF, MEDICAL OFFICER AND OPERATIVE; MAJOR IVAN LYON MBE, THE GORDON HIGHLANDERS, OFFICER COMMANDING AND OPERATIVE; LIEUTENANT D. M. N. DAVIDSON, ROYAL NAVY VOLUNTEER RESERVE, 2ND IN CHARGE AND OPERATIVE. ALL MEMBERS OF THE OPERATION WERE DECORATED, PAGE, LYON AND DAVIDSON EACH RECEIVING THE DSO. (DONOR: R. P. GREENISH)
context_page_description: Lieutenant Colonel Ivan Lyon, DSO, MBE was a British soldier and military intelligence agent during the Second World War. As a member of Z Special Unit Lyon took part in a number of commando operations against the Japanese and was killed during Operation Rimau while attempting to infiltrate Singapore harbour and destroy Japanese shipping there in 1944.
context_section_description: Lyon and Reynolds both later joined Special Operations Australia (a joint Allied intelligence unit for operations in the South West Pacific). Lyon was appointed to lead an SOA commando unit, Z Special Unit or Z Force, as it was usually known. In September 1943, he led Operation Jaywick, using Kofuku Maru (which had been renamed Krait). Z Force sailed from Exmouth Gulf, Australia and raided Japanese ships in Singapore Harbour. They sank or seriously damaged four Japanese ships, amounting to over 39,000 tons of shipping, before returning to Australia after an 8,000 kilometres (5,000 mi) round trip.
caption: Lieutenant Robert Page, Major Ivan Lyon and Lieutenant D.M.N. Davidson enjoying beer in Brisbane after the completion of Operation Jaywick
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