Isaac Myers (born 1893)

Stoker 1st Class Isaac Myers was an English sailor of the Royal Navy who died during the Second World War.
He was born on 20 August 1893, in Bethnal Green, the son of boot finisher Solomon and Fanny Myers (née Nieman), of London and Poland, respectively. His mother remarried, in 1908 , to George Griffith, of Surrey.
Myers entered the Royal Navy in 1913 and saw service in the First World War.Records of the Admiralty, Naval Forces, Royal Marines, Coastguard, and related bodiesAncestry.com. UK, Naval Medal and Award Rolls, 1793-1972 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010. He died on 17 September 1939, when the German U-boat U-29 torpedoed and sunk the aircraft carrier HMS Courageous off Ireland, with the loss of 519 crew.
He has no known grave and is commemorated by the Plymouth Naval Memorial. 
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==References==
*Myers, Isaac, cwgc.org. Retrieved 13 January 2013.
Category:1893 births
Category:1939 deaths
Category:British military personnel
Category:Royal Navy
Category:British people of Jewish descent
Category:British people of Polish descent
Category:Burial Unknown
Category:Plymouth Naval Memorial
Category:Stokers
Category:British people of Russian descent