26695 Pte Frank Myers, 11th Bn East Lancs Regt.
From Turkey Street, Accrington, Frank was a clerk at the Accrington Tramway Office. Called up to service in March 1916, he was trained with the 10th (Reserve) Battalion, East Lancs at Wareham before being transferred to the 11th Battalion for active service in France in late 1916. Frank had only been at the front (Puisieux sector) for a matter of weeks when, on the night of 7/8 March 1917, he was part of a 20-man patrol (under the command of 2/Lt Wild) tasked with reconnoitering a German machine-gun emplacement and ‘Buquoy Trench'. Three men, along with 2/Lt Wild failed to return, all being posted as ‘missing'. of which Frank was one. He was later reported as having been found and buried by soldiers of another unit, but his grave was lost. Frank is now commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial to the Missing. He was 32 years of age.
8 March 1917
Research by David O'Mara, Croonaert Research Services.
