Gunner Everett Willcocks
38th Heavy Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery
Killed in Action
Date of Birth: 30 December 1890
Place of Birth: Plymouth, Devon
Date of Death: 20 July 1917 aged 26
Buried: Remembered on Seafront Memorial and St. Michaels’ Memorial, Teignmouth, Devon
Awarded the British War Medal and the Victory Medal
Gunner Everett Willcocks age 26.
Born in Plymouth on 30 December 1890 and baptised at Wesleyan Methodist Church on 21 September 1891.
Everett was the son of William and Mary Willcocks, 31 Lisson Grove, Mutley, Plymouth.
1901 and 1911 census showed him living with his parents in Plymouth and on 30 November 1914 he married Mable May Hopkins at Tavistock.
Royal Artillery Cap Badge
Everett attested 12 February 1915 as a private , posted as a Gunner to Royal Garrison Artillery on 15 April 1916, service number 75667. A month later Everett was posted to 41st Company serving in France. He was posted on 15 March 1917 to 38th Heavy Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery.
Everett was serving with this Battery when he was badly injured with a shell wound to his right thigh and a fracture to his left femur on 20 July 1917; he died later that day at No. 4 Casualty Clearing Station, France.
Buried at Dozinghem Military Cemetery, Belgium.
Remembered on Seafront Memorial and St. Michaels’ Memorial, Teignmouth.
Can find no connection with Teignmouth
