EVERS, H Lancelot MC

Lancelot Evers was the sixth and youngest son of Frank and Isabel Evers of White Hall, Oldswinford. He attended Stourbridge Grammar School from 1893 to 1894 before going on to Rugby School. He was in business in Worcester for many years and as a young man had been a keen rugby player for Moseley. By 1914 he had joined the Worcester Territorials and was then commissioned in the 2/8th Battalion. The battalion was in action on the Somme in 1916 and in the advance to the Hindenburg Line in 1917. By this time he had been promoted Captain and had become a Company Commander. During the Third Battle of Ypres in 1917 he was awarded the Military Cross and seriously wounded. He did not return to the front line until June 1918 and from September his battalion was involved in the Advance to Victory. In the crossing of the Lys in October his daring leadership earned him a Bar to his Military Cross but an even more daring follow-up led to his death on the 1st November just ten days before the end of the war. Captain Lancelot Evers was 37 years of age and is buried at Crucifix Cemetery, Vendegies (D 4) and commemorated on the Stourbridge, Oldswinford church, King Edward VI College and Rugby School Memorials.