Operation: Training
Date: 02nd October 1941 (Thursday)
Unit: No. 58 OTU (Operational Training Unit)
Type: Spitfire I
Serial: P9497
Base: RAF Grangemouth, Scotland
Location: Cowie, near Bannockburn, Stirlingshire, Scotland
Pilot: P/O. Carlyle Gray Everiss NZ/41318 RNZAF Age 27. Killed
REASON FOR LOSS:
During a tail chasing exercise the Spitfire which was flying at 5,000 ft was witnessed to go into a spin from which he failed to recover and crashed into a railway embankment at 17:20 hrs. An eye witness stated that it looked like the pilot was trying to steer the aircraft away from a row of houses in Cowie and that they felt he could have baled out. However it appears that he was simply not in control of †he aircraft at the time.
He was buried at Grandsable Cemetery, Grangemouth in the afternoon of the 6th October 1941. P/O. Everiss was the only New Zealand fatality at 58 OTU.
Above Grangemouth (Grandsable) Cemetery (photographed by Aircrew Remembered)
P/O. Carlyle Gray Everiss. Gransable Cemetery. Section 1. Grave 19. Born on the 03rd December 1914 at Gisborne, the son of Frederick Everiss, and of Murielle Octavia Everiss (née Gray), of Gisborne, Auckland, New Zealand. Husband of Phyllis Elizabeth Everiss (née Harriss), of Te Kuiti, Auckland, New Zealand. Prior to enlisting on the 19th January 1941 a timber worker for C.E. Hammond. A total of 144 flying hours logged.
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