George William Myers was born in Thorne, near Doncaster in 1896. He the son of George Myers, a joiner from (Kirk) Sandall, near Thorne, and his wife, Emily, although her given name was Millie Auckland. Together they had three children, of which George William was the youngest. On leaving school, George began working as a gardener.

George Myers’ mother, Millie Myers died on 2^nd July 1899, and her widower remarried on 30^th December that year, in Market Weighton. The second Mrs Myers was Emily Brown, known as Emma.

George Myers married Clara Goodall at All Saints’ Church in Barwick on 22^nd August 1914. Despite being only 18 at the time of his wedding, the marriage register gives his age as 22 years old. A civilian at the time of his wedding, and with the country at war and appealing for volunteers, George Myers initially enlisted into the King’s Own Yorkshire Light Infantry at their regimental depot in Pontefract the following month, but the group of men who enlisted into the KOYLI at the same time as George Myers were all transferred to the York and Lancaster Regiment on 1^st October 1914. All the men went to the 10^th Battalion of the regiment, which was a New Army battalion, and had recently formed, also at Pontefract.

The battalion was relieved by a battalion of Scots Guards at 3:30 am on 27^th September and marched out to Noyelles-les-Vermelles. No gains had been made, and because the battlefield where the men had died was still in German hands, the dead could not be recovered for burial. Among them was Private George William Myers. Of the 71 men of the battalion who died in the fighting between 25^th -27^th September 1915, 68 of them have no known grave and are now commemorated on the walls of the Loos Memorial that surrounds Dud Corner Cemetery, on the apex of the Loos Battlefield.