Born Preston, Hull 1892. Son of The Rev. E. Evers and Mrs. Evers, of 9, Eastnor Grove, Leamington Spa, Warwickshire. Served as Captain, in the 9th Bn. West Yorkshire Regiment (Prince of Wales’s Own). Lived in Preston and at St Matthews Church Hull, until 1914. He was killed at the Somme, on 14/09/1916, aged 24. Commemorated at Thiepval, Somme, France.
Bertram was a fine sportsman. He gained a football Blue at Clare College, Cambridge and went on to represent England as an amateur footballer against Wales and France in 1913. He was Captain in the Prince of Wales’s Own (West Yorkshire Regiment) 9th Battalion. He served in World War I at Suvla in Gallipoli and was wounded. He was a member of of the famous Eleventh Division that made history at Suvla Bay, being the first to land and the last to leave.
He was killed in the Battle of the Somme, leading his men in an attack on the fortified village of Thiepval and Wundtwerk. Killed in action on 14th September 1916 aged 24.
There is a house named after him at what was Newbury Grammar School (now St. Bartholmews or St Barts) in Newbury, where his brother in law, Edward Sharwood Smith was headmaster. He was the husband of Lucy Evers.
His brother, the Reverend, Mervyn Saxleby Evers, was curate of St Matthews Church, Boulevard, Hull until 1914, until he enlisted as an Army Chaplain. He was awarded the Military Cross (MC) for 18 hours continuous work in “No Mans Land”, caring for and carrying the wounded. His story was published in the Hull Daily Mail, on 12/12/1916.*
