Private Eric J Everett

Eric Jack Everett was the son of Basil Eli Edmund and Ada May Everett, of Roxwell, Essex, he enlisted in the Essex Regiment, and volunteered for Airborne forces.

Private Emmett successfully completed parachute training at RAF Ringway on course number 47 from 18 January to 1 February 1943 with 9th Battalion, The Parachute Regiment. His course report stated “Attentive, keen, good all round”. He was posted to 2nd (Airborne) Bn., Ox and Bucks Light Infantry and took part in Operation Overlord (Normandy).

Pte Everett was killed in action on 6 June 1944, aged 22, and was given a field burial at Periers-En-Auge and re-interred to Ranville War Cemetery, Calvados, France, on 13 August 1945.

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