Myers John Private 4456240
Personnel Entry
Name Myers John
Army number 4456250
Rank Private.
Decorations None yet known beyond Service Awards.
Date of birth Born 19/1/1911 at Belmont, Durham. Mother's maiden surname Clarkson.
Age
Unit Enlisted in The Durham Light Infantry - no date as yet but probably Spring/Summer 1939. Posted to the 8th Battalion? Posted to the 11th Battalion. Served with the B.E.F. in Northern France. Posted Missing 10/5/1940. Formally notified as having been taken Prisoner of War at Calais 28/5/1940. Returned to the UK. Posted to ? Battalion DLI or to the Regimental Depot. Relegated to the Class Z (T) Reserve 14/2/1946.
Company/Battery HQ Company, D Company.
Platoon or other sub-unit
Task or role Based on information contained in a private diary it would appear that he served as Batman to Captain F R M Martin.
Joined Brigade Probably 1/9/1939.
Promotions None known.
Wounded Not as far as is known.
Prisoner of War Yes - held at Stalag XXIB Schuben. PoW Number 4777.
Died/Killed in action Date of death 4/10/1986 at 1 Mersey Street, Leadgate, Consett, County Durham, aged 75.
Home address Father - Thomas William Myers - Blacksmith - (1884 - 1974). Mother - Lucy Myers - nee Clarkson - (1886 - 1947). At the 1911 Census the family werte living at 4, Providence Place, Gilesgate, Durham, but at the 1921 Census John's mother and her three children were living with her parents at 1, Providence Place and his father was not present - at least at the time of the Census. Married Jennie Bates (1914 - 2004) at Lanchester in January 1937 and they had four children.
Source table
We are indebted to Richard Martin for his research which identified Private Myers as part of the 11th Battalion.