Commanding Officer, 16th Battalion, West Yorkshire Regiment (1st Bradford Pals). Father was Lieutenant General Gardiner Frederic Guyon. On 24 June 1916 Major  Guyon arrived to take over the command of Major Kennedy and the 1st Bradford Pals. Having previously served with the 2nd Royal Fusiliers before joining the 1st Bradford Pals. 

The 16th Battalion West Yorks (1st Bradford Pals) reported that the Germans directed machine gun, rifle fire and shrapnel shells on its Assembly trenches also. The men were climbing up the trench ladders out of the Assembly trenches to move forward into the British Front Line trench.“A lot of men never got off the ladder but fell back; and many fell back from the parapet in getting over... On getting out of the trenches to take up our position in front, we lost heavily, through the line of shrapnel, machine gun and rapid rifle fire; by the time we attained our position in front of Bradford trench most of the officers, N.C.O.s [Non-Commissioned Officers], and many men were knocked out.”2nd Lieutenant Charles Laxton left the battalion headquarters dugout with the battalion commander, Major Guyon. they started to make their way to the front line. However, within a couple of minutes Major Guyon was struck through the helmet by a bullet in the temple. Although the commander was unconscious and even though Laxton records in a statement to the War Diary that the man was apparently dying, he bandaged him up.

Michele Holcroft