{"id":18870,"date":"2023-04-18T05:38:20","date_gmt":"2023-04-18T05:38:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/?page_id=18870"},"modified":"2024-01-30T17:02:31","modified_gmt":"2024-01-30T17:02:31","slug":"addis-myer","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/army\/addis-myer\/","title":{"rendered":"Addis, Myer"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Myer Addis<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Gunner, Royal Artillery
16 Bty., 2 Heavy Anti Aircraft Regt.
Service number: 1536274
Died 26 Apr 1941
Commemorated on the Athens Memorial, Greece
Age 21<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Myer was born on 11 September 1919 in Salford, Greater Manchester to Isaac, a waterproof garment maker, and Rose nee Hirshderfer and he had two brothers and two sisters. The family lived at 69 Choir Street in Salford. The 1939 Register states that Myer worked as a raincoat machinist. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Myer was serving in Greece when he was killed. Operation Demon was the British naval evacuation of Allied forces from mainland Greece at the end of the Axis conquest of the country. The evacuation started on the night of 24\/25 April and continued for five nights.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The climax of ‘Demon’ took place on the night of 26\/27 April, when 27,000 men were awaiting evacuation. On 27\/28 April the light cruiser\u00a0Ajax and three destroyers won another 4,750 soldiers from Raftis and Nafplio, and on the following night a further 4,320 from Monemvasia. Escorted by three destroyers,\u00a0Glengyle reached Rafina, and the transport\u00a0Salween\u00a0with two destroyers reached Raftis. The transports\u00a0Slamat\u00a0and\u00a0Khedive\u00a0and the landing ship\u00a0Glenearn, escorted by\u00a0Calcutta\u00a0and three destroyers, reached Nafplio, and the transports\u00a0Dilwara,\u00a0City of London\u00a0and\u00a0Costa Rica, accompanied by\u00a0Phoebe\u00a0and four destroyers, arrived in Kalamata. The ships lifted 22,500 men (8,200 from Rafina and Raftis, 4,500 from Nafplio and 9,800 at Kalamata).\u00a0Glenearn\u00a0was hit by bombs and had to be towed to Crete by\u00a0Griffin. This further reduced the available lift capability and meant that several thousand men had to be left on the beach as\u00a0Glenearn, damaged still more by the attacks of several Ju 87 dive-bombers, was late in arriving and could send only some of its landing craft to the beach at Nafplio.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Loaded with troops,\u00a0Slamat\u00a0was bombed and machine gunned, and caught fire.\u00a0Diamond\u00a0and\u00a0Wryneck\u00a0managed to take most of the survivors on board, but were themselves later attacked and sunk: of the total of more than 1,000 persons on the three ships, only 50 were saved.\u00a0Phoebe\u00a0and the convoy she was escorting were attacked in Kalamata. Here the transport\u00a0Costa Rica, with 2,400 troops on board, was hit by a bomb and unable to steam, but managed to transfer her load to\u00a0Defender,\u00a0Hero\u00a0and\u00a0Hereward\u00a0before sinking. It is unknown which ship Myer was on when he was killed.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Myer is commemorated on his mother’s grave at Rainsough Jewish Cemetery.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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