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Auction: 18003 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 427

(x) Three: Staff Sergeant G. Everiss, New Zealand Medical Corps, who served as a stretcher-bearer at Gallipoli

1914-15 Star (10/1481 S/Sjt. S. Everiss, N.Z.E.F.); British War and Victory Medals (10/1481 S/Sjt. G. Everiss, N.Z.E.F.), the last with officially re-impressed naming, good very fine (3)


George Everiss lived at 17 Stout Street, Gisborne, New Zealand, where he worked as a draper for Adair Brothers prior to the outbreak of war. He enlisted on 16 December 1914 and served with the New Zealand Medical Corps as a stretcher-bearer, firstly at Gallipoli, then in Egypt from 1915-16 and finally in France & Flanders from late 1916 to the end of hostilities.

Prior to embarking for the Dardanelles on 12 April 1915, George spent three weeks in hospital in New Zealand suffering from measles. Upon landing at Mudros on 26 June, he was immediately sent to hospital again, suffering from gastritis, before joining his unit at Anzac Cove on 12 July 1915. He served throughout the failed August offensive and was present as the weather turned and the men began to suffer from exposure to the elements and hypothermia; on 29 December he left the peninsula for Alexandria.

Next deployed to Egypt, George transferred to the Wellington Infantry Regiment and was promoted Corporal. He subsequently transferred to France on 2 August 1916, where he joined No. 2 Field Ambulance, but once again his health let him down and he was admitted to hospital in Rouen on 28 August, with appendicitis. He returned to his unit on 4 September and served for ten months before being admitted to No. 2 Australian General Hospital at Wimereux on 5 July 1917, his service papers noting a 'slight' wound. George saw out the rest of the war serving in various Field Ambulance units. He was discharged and departed for home from Liverpool aboard the S.S. Oxfordshire on 19 December 1918. George died at Gore, a town on the South Island of New Zealand, on 25 February 1949; sold with copied service record.


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