Denzil Myer

Second Lieutenant Denzil Grenville Alex Myer was an English officer of the British Army who died during the First World War.
He was born on 22 January 1876, in Southampton, the son of Sydney, a silversmith and pawnbroker, and Sophia Rosa Myer (née Alen), of Hereford and Cheltenham, respectively. Myer was commissioned on 24 July 1915, in the 13th (Reserve) Battalion, The Worcestershire Regiment.The London Gazette (29242), p. 7330. 27 July 2015, thegazette.co.uk. Retrieved 1 August 2015.
Myer died on 25 February 1917 while serving with his regiment's 9th Battalion in the Mesopotamian Campaign. He was actively involved in social work in the East End, and a number of memorials were erected there by its Jewish community.Connelly, Mark (2015), The Great War, Memory and Ritual: Commemoration in the City and East London, 1916-1939, p. 86. In addition, the Samuel and Myer Home for Working Lads was founded in his honour, and that of Lieutenant Gerald Samuel. Myer's brother, Ernest, had died in 1915 on the Western Front.
He has no known grave and is commemorated by the Basra Memorial.
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==References==
*Ancestry.co.uk.
*Myer, Denzil Grenville Alex, cwgc.org. Retrieved 1 August 2015.
Category:1876 births
Category:1917 deaths
Category:British military personnel
Category:British Army
Category:British people of Jewish descent
Category:Burial Unknown
Category:Basra Memorial
Category:Second Lieutenants