OFFICER’S DEATH
FIRST BRITISH CASUALTY. CHARGE IN TEETH OF ENEMY GUNS. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. (Received This Day, 11.5 a.m.) LONDON. February 4. Lieutenant P. G. Everitt, who died as the result of machine gun bullets smashing his legs when leading the charge of a patrol in the teeth of enemy guns, fell to the ground ahead of the patrol, which was unable to rescue him owing to intense crossfire from machine guns. The patrol lay in the snow under a hail of bullets for 15 minutes, after which the men returned to their lines on their stomachs.
It was officially announced on January 20 that Lieutenant P. G. Everitt, of the Royal Norfolk Regiment, died in Germany on January 9 from wounds received on active service. He was the first British officer to fall on the Western Front. It was previously reported that an official announcement in Berlin said that the first British officer to be captured on the Western Front was an artilleryman who was found seriously wounded.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 5 February 1940, Page 6
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