1758 L/Cpl Myles Mack, 10th Bn, King's (Liverpool) Regt

1758 Lance-Corporal Myles Mack of the 10th Battalion, King's (Liverpool) Regiment, was killed in action on the 9th January 1915.

Myles was a long-serving Territorial who had originally enlisted with the 10th King's on the 23rd February 1909. He was 21 years and two months old at the time of enlistment, and was working as a railway signalman. His address is noted on his attestation papers as Old Swan, Liverpool. Myles stood five feet ten and a half inches tall and had good physical development.

Myles enlisted under an alias, his real name being Myles McNamara, and it is by this latter name that he is commemorated by the Commonwealth war Graves Commission. The Commission notes that he was 27 years old at the time of his death and "(Served as MACK). Son of Thomas and Mary McNamara; husband of Ethel M. McNamara, of 52, Farnworth Street, Farnworth, Widnes." Ethel would later be awarded a pension of ten shillings a week, effective from 10th July 1916.

Myles McNamara is buried in Kemmel Chateau Military Cemetery.

At the going down of the sun, and in the morning, WE WILL REMEMBER THEM.

Sources:

Ancestry.co.uk (MIC, WO 363)
Army Ancestry
Army Service Numbers 1881-1918
Commonwealth War Graves Commission
Soldiers Died in The Great War