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02.10.1941 No. 58 OTU Spitfire I P9497 P/O. Everiss

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.

In 2007 the villagers of Cowie, Scotland unveiled a bronze bust that they had collected over £12.000 for. The event was also covered in the National and local press.

Above Grangemouth (Grandsable) Cemetery (photographed by Aircrew Remembered)

Burial Details:

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.

Researched and dedicated to the relatives of this pilot with thanks to the research by Errol Martyn and his publications: “For Your Tomorrow Vols. 1-3”, Auckland War Memorial Museum, Weekly News of New Zealand, other sources as quoted below:

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