Chetwode Percy Evill (MC)

Name

Chetwode Percy Evill (MC)

Conflict

First World War

Date of Death / Age

Rank, Service Number & Service Details

Captain
Indian Army Reserve of Officers
Attached Faridkot Imperial Service Sappers

Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards

Not Yet Researched

Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country

MEERUT CANTONMENT CEMETERY
Plot 2. Grave 238.
India

UK & Other Memorials

Haileybury College Cloister Wall Memorial, Hertford Heath
Delhi 1914-1918 War Memorial

Pre War

Born on 6 May 1887 in Dorman’s Land, East Grinstead, Surrey son of the Rev. Henry Marten and Dora Janet (Ram) Evill. Educated at Haileybury College 1900-05 and King’s College, London (Dept. of Engineering). He joined the Inns of Court O.T.C in 1910. Was Assistant Engineer on the Bombay and Baroda Railway in 1911. He was unmarried.

Wartime Service

He was gazetted 2nd Lieutenant Indian Army in Jan 1915. He served in East Africa 1915-18 and died at the Station Hospital, Meerut in India from a fever contracted while in Africa.

Acknowledgments

Malcolm Lennox, Karen Smith - Acting Director of External Relations www.haileybury.com/honour