Lieutenant John Myers was commissioned on 4 December 1942 [1]. Served at the Commando Basic Training Centre [1a] and later in 5 troop of No.2 Commando whilst they were on the island of Vis and during operations at Spilje and Sarande in Albania [2].

"After the war my father trained as a teacher in Winchester and at the Ecole Anglais in Paris before joining the RAEC. We were posted to Libya from 1953-55 initially in Benghazi and then Derna. For at least part of that time he was attached to 1st Bn Sherwood Foresters and also had some responsibilities with a unit of Mauritian soldiers. We returned briefly to the UK in the summer of ’55 but by the winter were in Hanover (BAOR). That was for just a few months until he left the army. Shortly afterwards he was recalled to a desk job at the time of Suez. The rest of his working life was as a school teacher. He died in 1983."