91203 Lt. Col. Henry Breedon EVERARD D.S.O. M.I.D. Sherwood Foresters (Notts. & Derby Regt.)

91203 Lt. Col. Henry Breedon EVERARD D.S.O. 2/5th The Sherwood Foresters (Notts. & Derby Regiment)
21st February 1897 Barnet, Herfordshire - 8th August 1980 Bulawayo, Zimbabwe aged 83
Educated Marlborough College and Cambridge University
Temp. 2nd Lt. The Rifle Brigade 26.4.1915
Temp. Lt. 30.10.1915
Acting Capt.while holding an appt. on the permanant estab. Training Reserve Bn. 28.7.1917
Served in WW1 in France and Flanders (Wounded)


Birmingham Daily Post 2nd October 1916
Temp. Capt. 15.12.1918
Relinquished his commission 1.9.1921
Employed as a railway engineer 1922-1939
Capt., Major, Temp. Lt.Col. The Sherwood Foresters (Nottinghamshire & Derbyshire Regt.
Served with B.E.F. 1940 P.o.W. 1940-1945 (D.S.O. (No citation) & M.I.D. 21.2.1946)


Derby Evening Telegraph 13th June 1940

WO 417/1

Derby Evening Telegraph 7th March 1946






Executive British Railways
Awarded the T.D. (L.G.21.4.1950)
Ceased to belong to T.A. Reserve of Officers 17.1.1953
Moved to Bulawayo, South Rhodesia 1953
Gen. Manager Rhodesia Railways 1953-58
Order of St. John (L.G.7.1.1955)
C St. J. 29.6.1956
Retired 1958
Acting President of Rhodesia 31.12.1975- 14.1.1976, 31.8.1978-1.11.1978 and 5.3.1978-1.6.1979