Commemorated: | |||
| 1. Memorial: | The (1940) Scroll - WW1 Roll of Honour | 56C GQS | |
| 2. Grave: | Philosophe British Cemetery | I.V.16 Mazingarbe | |
Awards & Titles: | British War Medal Victory Medal | ||
Early Life :
The majority of this legend is courtesy of Geoff Cuthill of the Province of West Lancashire, to whom the project is grateful.Everest was born 21st October 1884, in Bolton, the youngest son to Thomas and Mary Windsor (nee Hancock), both originally from near Kidsgrove in Staffordshire, and who had married at Wolstanton, Staffordshire on 7th May, 1864. Everest was baptised on 20th May, 1897 at Holy Trinity Church, Bolton-le-Moors.
The family are found in the 1891 census as residing at 86 Bradshawgate, Great Bolton, Lancashire, and their are six children listed as Arline 26, Emile 24, Clara Novello 21, Corney (b 6 November 1871)19, Malcombe 8 and Everest 6. In the Bolton Evening News of 30 November 1900 on page 3 there is an article with regard to prize giving for Art and lists Everest as winning 10s 6d for his shaded drawings of a cast. The census of the following year, 1901, has him as an art student.
The 1911 census shows him at home at 40 Weston Street, Bolton, with his widowed father, Thomas aged 68, a former sewing machine agent. Also there is Everest’s sister Arlene, a pawnbrokers assistant, aged 46, and Everest (transcribed as Ernest) age 26, a designer at a calico printers. His future wife is to be found on the census as a probationer nurse, at the Wolstanton and Burslem Union Workhouse in Tunstall, age 23, recorded as Amelia White, born Newchapel.
He married Emelia White, the daughter of Joseph and Harriett White at Wolstanton, Staffordshire in the spring of 1913, and the couple were later living at 36 Cavendish Road, West Didsbury, Manchester. at the end of the and war, her name and address is given as Emilia Windsor, Thursfield Villa, Newchapel, Stoke on Trent, Staffordshire.
Service Life:
Campaigns:
- The First World War 1914-1918, World-wide.
| Unit / Ship / Est.: 1st Battalion King's Shropshire Light Infantry |
1st Battalion August 1914 : at Tipperary. Part of 16th Brigade in 6th Division. 10 September 1914 : landed at St Nazaire. |
| Action : France & Flanders |
France & Flanders covers all the dates and corresponding locations which are outside the official battle nomenclature dates on the Western Front. Therefore the actions in which these men died could be considered 'normal' trench duty - the daily attrition losses which were an everyday fact of duty on the Western Front.
Detail :
Military records show he first enlisted at West Didsbury, probably as 5222 in the Duke of Lancaster’s Yeomanry, then re-numbered as Private 203804, on his movement to the South Lancashire Regiment. He was later transferred to the 1st Battalion, King's Shropshire Light Infantry as 204509.
He was killed in action with the Shropshire Light Infantry, aged 32 years, on 28th August 1917, and is buried at Philosophe British Cemetery, Mazingargarbe, Pas de Calais, France, in Grave I.V.16., near to the Great Cross. His wife requested the words UNTIL THE DAY BREAKS AND THE SHADOWS FLEE AWAY be inscribed on hie headstone. This cemetery is situated near to the main road between Bethune and Lens. Everest was entitled to the British War and Victory medals.
After his death Emelia returned home to Thursfield Villa, Newchapel, Stoke on Trent, Staffordshire.
He is also commemorated on a White family gravestone in Newchapel (St James) Churchyard, Staffordshire, and on a plaque at Newchapel Methodist Chapel, ST7 4PZ. Also on the Christ Church Reedos within Christ Church, Darley Avenue, Didsbury, Manchester and St Mary’s Church School, Didsbury now relocated to nearby St Luke’s Mission Hall
Masonic :
| Type | Lodge Name and No. | Province/District : |
|---|---|---|
| Mother : | Royal Protector No. 3471 E.C. | West Lancashire |
Initiated | Passed | Raised |
18th November 1913 | 16th December 1913 | 20th January 1916 |
EVEREST WINDSOR was initiated into ROYAL PROTECTOR LODGE, No. 3471 on 18th November, 1915; his address given as 36 Cavendish Road, West Didsbury (Manchester). He is given as a calico printers designer age 30. He was passed to the second or fellow craft degree on 16th December 1915, and raised on 20th January 1916 to the master mason or third degree. His Grand Lodge certificate was issued on 30th March, 1916.
Source :
The project globally acknowledges the following as sources of information for research across the whole database:
- The Commonwealth War Graves Commission
- The (UK) National Archives
- Ancestry.co.uk - Genealogy, Family Trees & Family History online
- ugle.org.uk - The records of the United Grand Lodge of England including the Library and Museum of Freemasonry
Additional Source:
- Founder Researchers : Paul Masters & Mike McCarthy
- Researcher : Bruce Littley