Private Thomas M Meyer

Thomas McDonald Meyer, son of Edward and Maria Meyer, of Leith, Edinburgh, enlisted into the Royal Artillery.

Private Meyer volunteered for airborne forces in 1944 and undertook parachute training course 114 at RAF Ringway which ran from 1 to 12 May 1944. The course instructors’ report stated: ‘Pte Meyer: worked hard and cheerfully- confident.’

After a period at No1 Airborne Forces Holding Unit he was posted to the 13th (Lancashire) Parachute Battalion (13th Para Bn) and took part in the 6th Airborne response to the German counter-offensive in the Ardennes, during Winter 1944-5.

Pte Meyer was Killed in Action aged 21 years old on 4 January 1945. After a field burial in Bure he was reburied Hotton War Cemetery, Belgium in May 1947.