Name
William Wallis Everett
20th September 1891
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
08/10/1918
27
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Captain
Norfolk Regiment
9th Bn., attached 2nd Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 /15 Star, British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
MONTBREHAIN BRITISH CEMETERY
A. 1.
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Hertford Town Memorial, Hertford Grammar Memorial - now Richard Hale School, Hertford, Waterford Village Memorial, Roll of Honour, St Michael’s & All Angels Church, Waterford, Diocese - Book of Remembrance, St Albans Cathedral, St Albans, Diocese of St Albans - ROH, St Albans Cathedral, St Albans, Not on the Bengeo memorials (*1) Alnwick War Memorial, Alnwick, Northumberland
Pre War
William was the son of W J and Martha Everett. He was born 20th September 1891. He was Baptised on the 8th November 1891, in Holy Trinity Church, Chelsea, London. His father was the coachman to the Smith family at Goldings, Hertford.
Education: Waterford School and Holy Trinity C of E Elementary School, Chelsea, Hales Grammar School and Hertford Grammar School.
The family lived in London during the Summer Season. He entered HGS on 26th January 1910. Won formwork prizes. Form IV - 1904 at Hales GS, which was presented by Earl Cowper. KG and French Form Prize - 1904, presented by Abel H Smith Esq.
First place, Herts CC Junior School Exam June 1906. First Class Hons (Distinction) Maths, Cambridge Junior Locals - December - 1906. London University Matriculation January - 1908. Intermediate: BSc London University – July 1909. Open Maths Exhibition, Downing College, Cambridge - March 1910, awarded by the College Authorities for College Life, value £30 per annum. First Class Part I and Part II and additional subjects. Cambridge University Exams – June 1910. Certificate ‘A’ (Territorial Force – Army) – July 1910. School Captain and Head of School 1908 - 1910.
He entered Downing College Cambridge - Sept 1910. Second Class Maths Tripos Part I – June 1913. BA – June 15th 1913.
College Colours for Cricket and Football.
The 1901 census records William aged 9, living with his parents, brother Henry 7, and sister Ida 4, at The Coach House, 142 Pavilion Road, Chelsea, London. In 1911 William 19, is a Student, living with his parents, brother Henry 17, and sister Ida 14, at Goldings Park, Hertford.
Assistant Master at Alnwick. He married Alice Isabella Orde of Thistledowne, Alnwick, Northumberland, and they had a son. The child was born after he went to France and it is suggested that he never saw his father (Jonty Wild note: it seems unlikely that William had not had any leave before 1918 when he died.)
Wartime Service
William enlisted and was posted the Norfolk Regiment. He received his Commission 2nd Lieutenant in February 1915, and later became Captain Everett. He landed in Boulogne with his Battalion on the 30th August 1915. William was Killed in Action on the 8th October 1918. He is buried in the Montbrehain British Cemetery in France.
Additional Information
Husband of Alice Isabella Orde Everett, of "Thistledowne," Alnwick, Northumberland”. His headstone reads: “Peace, Perfect Peace” as requested by his wife.
William is also commemorated on his widow's grave in Waterford (St. Michael) Churchyard.
William's brother Henry died of wounds on the 12th October 1918, in Egypt. (Just 4 days after William).
*1 The St Albans Cathedral Diocese records suggest a connection to Bengeo (Rural).
Acknowledgments
Malcolm Lennox, Jennifer Newton William Wandrag, Jonty Wild, Stuart Osborne
