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Originally Posted by Peter Hanley

Bob
Just discovered your interest in the Myers family on accyweb. I take it you know there is a connection to my gt.gt grandfather John Broadley who I have an interest in.
Richard Myers from Clitheroe married John Broadley's eldest child Alice in 1850, sadly she died in 1867 and Richard later in the same year remarried a lady called Alice Haworth.
The 1851 Census shows Alice nee Broadley and Richard living in Accrington and records show that they had a son John Broadley Myers about 1854 and as you probably know he married a lady whose first names were Mary Ellen and they had 10 children. When John died in 1914 he left effects valued at £2,629 3s - not bad for those days.
Mention wa made on the Acci website of the two of his sons who died during WW1 and as it happens I am planning in September to visit their graveyards in Thiepval and Pozieres which are only 2 miles apart!
This is whilst we are on holiday in the nearby Seine maritime Region of Normandy.

regards

Peter Hanley

Frank was serving with the 11th East Lancs, he was one of 20 men on a night patrol, led by 2/Lt Wild on the night of 7/8 March 1917, casualties 2/Lt Wild and 3 others missing. Wild was taken prisoner, the bodies of the three men were never found. His name is on the Thiepval Memorial.
John was serving in the 2/5th East Lancs, with a light trench mortar battery, he was posted as missing in action, assumed dead March 21st 1918.
His name is on the Pozieres Memorial.

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