A Great War ‘Mesopotamia operations’ M.B.E. group of four awarded to Captain Roland Tylor Everett, South Wales Borderers, late 2nd Battalion County of London Yeomanry

The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, M.B.E. (Military) Member’s 1st type breast badge, silver, hallmarks for London 1918; 1914-15 Star (1526 Cpl., 2-Co. of Lond. Y.); British War and Victory Medals (Capt.) good very fine and better (4) £300-350

M.B.E. London Gazette 1 January 1919 (Mesopotamia) ‘T/Lt., General List, attd. 4th (S) Bn. S.W.B.’

Roland Tylor Everett was born in Lewisham, London. Employed as a Stockbroker’s Clerk, he enlisted into the City of London Yeomanry on 1 March 1912, aged 29 years. As a Corporal in the 2nd Battalion County of London Yeomanry, he entered the Egypt theatre of war on 5 November 1914, serving there until September 1915. He was discharged to a temporary commission with the 4th Battalion South Wales Borderers on 11 September 1915 and was advanced to Temporary Lieutenant in September 1916 and Temporary Captain in November the same year. Serving then in Mesopotamia, he was wounded in action on 5 April 1916 in the attack and capture of Falahiya - suffering a shrapnel wound to the left shoulder. The attack, part of the operations for the relief of Kut, was followed on the 9th by the attack on Sannaiyat, in which Private James Henry Fynn of the 4th Battalion South Wales Borderers won the V.C. Though Everett returned to the front soon after, in May 1916 he was invalided to India. Making a full recovery from his wounds, he returned to Mesopotamia in September 1916 and continued to serve there until the end of the war. Lieutenant Everett was appointed Military Governor of Kifri in May 1918, and during November-December 1918 was employed by the Assistant Political Officer at Kirkuk.

Sold with a folder containing a quantity of copied research, including service papers, m.i.c., and gazette and war diary extracts.