EYRE, CHARLES LEWIS, eldest son of George Lewis Phipps Eyre, Norbury Hill, Upper Norwood, Surrey, solicitor, and his first wife Emily Sophia Le Grice, dau. of William Malton, Wimpole Street, London; b. 8 Sep 1850; adm. (G) 26 May 1864; Min. Can. 1865; left Whitsun 1866; adm. solicitor Easter 1874; practised successively in London and Brighton; m.; d. 15 Sep 1920.
Eyre, Ambrose Wright, son of James Colmer Eyre of Winchester, and Annie Margaret, d. of John Wesley Gardner; b. 8 Oct. 1918; adm. Sept. 1932 (H); left July 1936; Univ. of Lond., BSc ARSM 1941; CEng FRAeS; PO (Tech.) RAFVR Dec. 1941, Flt Lieut. (Tech.) RAF Sept. 1945, Sqdn Ldr July 1950, Wing Cdr Apr. 1955, Group Capt. Oct. 1960; directorate of Armament Development Min. of Aircraft Production 1942-5; Roy. Aircraft Establishment 1949-52; HQ Allied Air Forces Central Europe 1952-4; Staff College Andover 1954-5; AWRE Aldermaston 1955-8; JSSC 1958-9; asst dir. Air Armament Development 1960-3; Ordnance Board 1963, -6; Superintendent A&AEE 1966-9; Dir. of Air Armament R&D 1969-73; retd as Air Cdre Oct. 1973; chief engineer Hunting Eng. Ltd 1973-5; project man. Graseby Insts 1975-9; m. 11 June 1949 Dorothy Jane, d. of Allan Osborne Williams of Llandilo, Carmarthen; d. 20 Apr. 2004.
EYRE, ---; b.; adm.; QS 1553-4 (Chapter Muniments 54001).
Excell, Hugh Charles Gilchrist, son of Hugh George Excell of Westerham, Kent, and Pamela Elizabeth, d. of Capt. J. W. Gilchrist of Friern Barnet, Middlesex; b. 12 Jan. 1944; adm. Sept. 1957 (R); left July 1962; Harold Holt Ltd. 1966-7; German Red Cross 1967-70; asst. stage dir. Hessian State Theatre Darmstadt, Germany, 1970-4; Univ. of Bristol 1974; teacher of English and Drama, St Katherine’s Sch., Pill, Somerset; lecturer in English, Linkoping Univ, Sweden; m. 5 Jan. 1971 Inger Linnea, d. of Ivan Löfgren of Åby, Sweden; d. 10 Oct. 2013.
EWYS ( or EVERYS), WILLIAM; b. ; adm. ; KS 1544 (Chapter Muniments).
EWER, ROGER, son of Roger Ewer, Watford, Herts.; b.; adm.; Min. Can. (aged 13) 1580; QS; failed to obtain election to either Univ. 1586; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 27 Jan 1586/7, aged 18; BA 1590; MA 1593 (incorp. Cambridge 1597); Clerk of the Market 1594; Pro-Proctor 1600; ordained; Rector of Wendlebury, Oxfordshire, 24 May 1605; d. 1614.
Evetts, Julian Arthur, son of Edgar Fullerton Evetts of Tackley, Oxon., and Kathleen Enid, d. of Rev. Ambrose John Wilson DD of Charlton Kings, Gloucs; b. 24 Nov. 1911; adm. Sept. 1925 (KS); Capt. of the school 1929-30; left July 1930; BNC Oxf., matric. 1930, BA 1934; HM Colonial Service N. Rhodesia 1935, DO 1937, Private Sec. and ADC to the Governor 1941-3; acting asst Chief Sec. 1948-51, asst Sec. 1951-3; retd 1953; MBE 1954; engaged in forestry and private woodlands 1953-1996; d. 25 Feb. 1996.
Evetts, Desmond Frederick, brother of Julian Arthur Evetts (qv); b. 23 Jan. 1914; adm. Sept. 1927 (B); left July 1930; dir. of Thames lighterage firm; Oxf. & Bucks LI 1940, transf. to RE (Transportation) 1942 (Lieut.); m. 7 Mar. 1942 Rosamond Mary, d. of Col. Percy Scamander Clarke MC, Indian railway executive, of West Meon, Hants.; d. Mar. 2007.
EVES, ---; b.; adm.; QS in 1556 (Chapter Muniments 37713).
Evers, Gilbert Davey, son of Harold Evers of Bromley; b. 11 Jan. 1912; adm. Sept. 1925 (B), (A) Sept. 1926; left Apr. 1929; RAFVR 1939-45 (Flt Serg., flying instructor); PO Jan. 1945; killed in air operations over Germany 28 Jan. 1945.
Gilbert Davey “Pop” Evers was born at Bromley, Kent on the 11th of January 1912 the younger son of Harold Evers, a chartered secretary, and Rhoda Skene (nee Heathcote) Evers of 6, Haven Green, Ealing in London. He was educated at Westminster School where he was up Busby’s from September 1925 and up Ashburnham from September 1926 to April 1929.
He was granted a short service commission in the Royal Air Force with the rank of Acting Pilot Officer on the 21st of October 1935 and was confirmed in his rank on the 21st of October 1936. He resigned his commission on the 11th of March 1937.
On the outbreak of war he was working as an instrument flying instructor and was lodging at 83, Grand Avenue, Hassocks in Sussex.
He enlisted in the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve in 1940 where he rose to the rank of Warrant Officer before being commissioned as a Pilot Officer on the 16th of January 1945.
On the 28th of January 1945, Bomber Command dispatched 153 Lancasters for an operation on the Gremberg railway marshalling yards at Cologne. The weather was clear and the target was hit but with some bombs overshooting.
Gilbert Evers and his crew took off from RAF Chedburgh at 10.46am on the 27th of January 1945 in Lancaster Mk I PD296 HA-B, as the Squadron’s lead aircraft for the operation. This was to be his 30th operation, the final one of his tour of operations. While the aircraft was in the target area it was hit by anti aircraft fire and crashed at 2pm at Bergisch-Gladbach, 14 kilometres to the east north east of the centre of Cologne, with the loss of all but one of the crew.
The crew was: -
Pilot Officer Gilbert Davey Evers (Pilot)
Sgt Ernest Noel James Francis (Flight Engineer)
Flying Officer Frederick J. Norton (2nd Navigator) (Wounded) (POW)
Flight Sergeant Anthony Morris (Navigator)
Flight Sergeant David Charles Allen (Air Bomber)
Flight Sergeant Eric Holland (Wireless Operator)
Sergeant Edward Bertram Barradell (Air Gunner)
Warrant Officer John Towns DFC (Air Gunner)
Theirs was one of four aircraft which were lost during the operation, one of which crash landed in liberated France.
The navigator, Frederick Norton, was the only member of the crew to survive. He had been wounded by shrapnel in the arm but landed safely by parachute and was captured. Had Gilbert Evers survived the operation he would have been stood down from further operations.
He is commemorated on the war memorial at the Church of Christ the Saviour, Ealing.
He is buried at Reichswald Forest War Cemetery Plot 31, Row C, Grave 1.