Orders, Decorations and Medals

Three: Captain R.E. Eversden, Royal Air Force, late Suffolk Yeomanry

1914-15 STAR (2 Lieut., Suff. Yeo.); BRITISH WAR AND VICTORY MEDALS, mounted for wearing, good very fine and better (3)

Captain Robert Ernest Eversden was accidentally shot and killed by a sentry at Ekaterinodar, South Russia, on 15 August 1919. A pre-war trooper with the Buckinghamshire Yeomanry, Eversden was commissioned into the Suffolk Yeomanry in December 1914. Transferring to the R.F.C. he became a Flying Officer in January 1917, seeing service with No. 145 Squadron in Africa and Palestine. He was next posted to No. 47 Squadron and subsequently went to South Russia in 1919. The circumstances of his death seem shrouded in mystery. One report states he was shot while unexplicably crawling under the Squadron headquarters train in the early hours of the morning; but Squadron records state that the sentry had been shot at three times by unknown persons, then, 'for some unknown reason, Captain .RE. Eversden crawled under the train in the dark and neglected to reply to the sentry's challenge. The sentry fired and instantly killed Captain Eversden.

Sold with full research including a copy letter from the recipient's mother which states she had not received any information regarding her son's death, or been sent his personal effects.