Private F. EVERETT (c.1874–1898)

F. EVERETT or EVERITT is hard to identify with certainty, but is likely to be the following man, given that he disappears from the censuses after 1891 and there is no death recorded for him in England & Wales.

Frederick Everett was born at 42 Wellington Street, Jericho, Oxford on 1 December 1876 and baptised at St Barnabas' Church on 28 December. He was the son of the warehouseman/printer William Everett and Emma Rogers, both born in Oxford and living in Cardigan Street in Jericho, who were married at St Paul's Church in Walton Street on 20 November 1864.

At the time of the 1881 census Frederick (4) was already at school and living at 42 Wellington Street with his father William (42), his mother Emma (44), and his six siblings: William junior (14) who was also a printer, and Emma (13), Harry (11), Harold (7), and Minnie (5) who were at school, and George (1).

They were still at the same address in 1891 and Frederick (16) and his older brothers William (23) and Harold (18) were all general labourers. His sister Minnie (15) was now a book folder, and George (10) was still at school.

In 1897/8 F. Everett served as a Private in C Company of the 2nd Battalion of the Oxfordshire Light Infantry (Service No. 4576) in Bengal.

He served both on the Punjab Frontier and at Tirah in 1897/8.

He died of disease at Landi Kotal at the western edge of the Khyber Pass on 5 August 1898.

He was posthumously awarded the India Medal with two clasps. 

 

 

 

Right: Grave of F. Everett
at Landi Kotal,
photographed
by Dr Ali Jan