Private Everitt Bacon

Army Number: 269774 (formerly 20560 1/7th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.)

Battalion: 1/5th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Born and lived at Horsford, Norfolk, Son of George L. and Blanche Bacon, of The Heath, Horsford. He was an assistant in his father’s cow and milk business prior to enlisting at Norwich, Norfolk. He was killed in action, 29th March 1918, when the Germans attacked the British line near St. Emile, France.

Buried: Aix-Noulette Communal Cemetery Extension, France. Plot 2. Row E. Grave 10.

Private Everitt Bacon is also commemorated on the following local memorials:-
All Saint’s Church War Memorial, Horsford, Norfolk.

His brother Private Robert Bacon, 1/7th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment, also fell in the Great War.