Private George H E Mayers

George Henry Empson Mayers was the son of Edgar and Daisy Elizabeth Mayers, of Litherland, Merseyside, he enlisted in the General Service Corps and volunteered for airborne forces.

Private Mayers successfully completed parachute training at RAF Ringway on course number 97, from 3 to 15 January 1944. His course report stated “Excellent performer, very keen”. He was posted to C Company, 12th (10th Battalion, The Green Howards [Yorkshire Regiment]) Battalion, The Parachute Regiment, and took part in Operation Overlord (Normandy).

Pte Mayers died of wounds on 10 June 1944, aged 20, and was given a field burial at Le Bas De Ranville and was re-interred in Ranville War Cemetery, Calvados, France, on 29 June 1945.

He is commemorated on the family grave at St Luke's Church in Crosby, Merseyside and at Eden Camp in Yorkshire.

 A newspaper article from 1944 and a photograph of George. The newspaper article reads:

"Killed In Normandy

In Normandy, in the Sixth Airborne Division Cemetery, is buried Private George Henry Empson Mayers, the nineteen year old son of Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Mayers, of 40, Litherland Park, who was wounded in action on June 6, and died four days later.

Private Mayers joined the Eighth Irish when he was 17 and four months old, and was later transferred to the Paratroops. He was educated at Beech Road, Lutheran, and the Liverpool Collegiate, and went straight from school into the forces.

He was a very keen member of the Church Lads' Brigade of St Phillips' Church since he was eight years' old, and never omitted to visit the unit when he was on leave. As a token of their respect for him the youth organisations of the church recently held a memorial service to him, the CLB taking a prominent part.

Private Mayes was a member of an old Waterloo family. His mother is a Centre Organiser of the WVS in Litherland, a Vice Chairman of the MOI Committee. Private Mayers has two brothers who are still pupils at Liverpool Collegiate."

George also had a sister, Margaret Charlotte Maye