 General Notes:
Info ex Dorri Roughley:-
Captain John Harry Meers M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P. was born in 1885 in Lee, London and died on 10 Oct 1915 in France.
* He appeared on the census in 1891 in 31 Leyland Road, Lee, London.
* He appeared as a Pupil on the census in 1901 in Kings School, Chrischurch, Canterbury, Kent. Public Secondary School for Boys
* He served in the military R.A.M.C. 1st Loyal Lancashire Regiment in 1915 in France.
He never married and had no children.
Birth Notes:
http://www.hambo.org/kingscanterbury/view_man.php?id=204
And
http://www.freebmd.org.uk/cgi/information.pl?cite=xORDlfWcFx4jSsnQjl%2Fy5w&scan=1
Lewisham
Death Notes:
On October 9th during the Battle of Loos the battalion took over a section of the line in front of Mazingarbe, where the shelling was unusually heavy. The same day Captain Meers left his trench to bring in a wounded comrade and was wounded in the arm by a bullet before being hit again, this time by shrapnel.
http://www.hambo.org/kingscanterbury/view_man.php?id=204
And
The British Medical Journal OCT. 23 1915 War Notes Page 621
Captain John Harry Meers, R.A.M.C., was killed in France on October 13th, aged 30. He was the elder son of Mr. J. B. Meers, of Lancaster Gate, London, and took the diplomas of M.R.C.S. and L.R.C.P.Lond. in 1910. After acting as assistant medical officer of the Islington Infirmary, he went into practice in Wandsworth Bridge Road, London. On war being declared, he took a temporary commission as Lieutenant in the R.A.M.C. from August 16th, 1914, and was promoted to Captain after a year's service. He was attached to the 1st Battalion Loyal North Lancashire Regiment, and, wllile bringing in wounded, was hit in the arm by a bullet, and soon after killed by shrapnel.
And
British Medical Journal Supplement May 6 1916 - Page 79 Roll of Honour
Killed on Service.
Capt. John Harry Meers, R.A.M.C
Burial Notes:
http://www.cwgc.org/search/casualty_details.aspx?casualty=465974
Sources of information or noted events in his life were:
• General Comment. In the FREEBMD GRO register he definitely appears as John Harry.
In his school honour roll he appears as John Henry this is clearly an error.
• General Comment. Noted events in his life were:
• He appeared on the census in 1891 in 31 Leyland Road, Lee, London.
• He appeared as a Pupil on the census in 1901 in Kings School, Christchurch, Canterbury, Kent. Public Secondary School for Boys
• He was educated at St Mary's Hospital -Royal Colleges of Physicians And Surgeons on 2 May 1903.
• He worked as a Doctor on 1 Feb 1910 in 11 Arundel Gardens, Notting Hill, Kensington, London. GMC Medical Register 1911 Lic. R. Coll. Phys. Lond., 1910.
• He appeared as a Doctor (General Practioner) on the census on 2 Apr 1911 in 11 Arundel Gardens, Notting Hill, Kensington, London.
• He was employed in 1915 in 47 Wandsworth Bridge Road, London. GMC Medical Register 1915
The record has been struck through and annotated D. (dead)
• He served in the military R.A.M.C. attached to 1st Loyal Lancashire Regiment in 1915 in France.
• Honours. Captain John Henry MEERS MRCS LRCP (Lond)
Royal Army Medical Corps attached to the 1st Battalion Loyal North Lancashire Regiment
Date of birth: 11th of September 1885
Date of death: 10th of October 1915
Died of wounds aged 30
Buried at Noeux-Les-Mines Communal Cemetery Plot I Row K Grave 17
He was born at Lee in Kent on the 11th of September 1885, the elder son of James Blackader Meers, a director of the National Bank Ltd, and Ada J Meers of 41 Lancaster Gate in London.
He was educated at the King?s School Canterbury from January 1899 to July 1902, after which he studied medicine becoming a physician and surgeon. He became LRCP in 1910 and was entered on the Medical Register on the 1st of February 1910.
In 1914 he joined the Royal Army Medical Corps and landed in France on the 25th of August. For a year he worked in France in various base hospitals, ambulance units including the 141st Field Ambulance and sanitary sections.
He then took over as Medical Officer of the 1st Battalion of the Loyal North Lancashire Regiment, the previous Medical Officer, Captain E.J. Nangle, having been killed on the 25th of September 1915.
On October 9th during the Battle of Loos the battalion took over a section of the line in front of Mazingarbe, where the shelling was unusually heavy. The same day Captain Meers left his trench to bring in a wounded comrade and was wounded in the arm by a bullet before being hit again, this time by shrapnel.
He died from his wounds the following day.
He was married to Mrs. C. G. Meers, who at the time was living at 5, Trebovir Road, Earls Court in London.
http://www.hambo.org/kingscanterbury/view_man.php?id=204
• Military Service. 6580 SUPPLEMENT TO THE LONDON GAZETTE, 20 AUGUST
ARMY MEDICAL SERVICE.
Royal Army Medical Corps, the undermentioned are granted the temporary rank of
Lieutenant whilst employed with the Army: \emdash
Dated 16th August, 1914
John Harry Meers.
• Occupation. Medical Doctor/ Surgeon.
• Web Based Info. King's School Canterbury - Roll of honour gives his second name as Henry.
John married Cecil Gladys Webb, daughter of Dr. Hugh Webb and Unknown, Jun Q 1914 in Fulham RD, , England. (Cecil Gladys Webb was born in 1890 in Fulham RD, , England.)
Sources of information or n events in their marriage were:
• Web Based Info. http://www.freebmd.org.uk/cgi/information.pl?cite=DgCKD6cxa2Ev%2BwS4vZCO7g&scan=1
Fulham RD.
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