Myer was born in 1924 in Liverpool to Polish born Harry and Sophia née Marks. Myer had three siblings, Annie, David and Eva. Their father Harry worked as a clerk agent collector and served in the Royal Fusiliers in WW1.

Myer was the flight engineer on Halifax LW157 which departed RAF Skipton on Swale on a night operation to Aachen for a bombing operation against the Rothe Erde railway station. Homeward-bound, the aircraft was shot down by night fighter pilot Oberleutnant Peter Ehrhardt of the 9./NJG 5, who was flying a Bf 110 G-4 from Mainz-Finthen airfield in Germany.

All the crew were killed and are commemorated on Runnymede Memorial.

A/G, John Neville Almond, RCAF J/90182
Pilot, Francis Wilfred Dolter, RCAF J/19999
W/Op A/G, James William Kellie, RCAF J/89392
Nav, Gordon Alexander Wilson RCAF J/88025
A/G, Harold Kenneth Wilson RCAF J/89778
A/B, Norman Andison Wilson RCAF J/89886