Lieutenant Everard Francis Sale Handford

Army Number: n/a

Battalion: 8th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derby) Regiment.

British 15 Star, British War and Victory Medal

Born in Nottingham 3rd May 1895. Son of Major Henry Handford and The Hon. Mary Emily Handford, of Elmfield, Southwell, Nottinghamshire. Educated at Rugby and Trinity College Cambridge, where he was to have gone into a residence in October 1914 but volunteered for foreign service in August and obtained a commission as Second Lieutenant in the 8th Sherwood Foresters 3rd October 1914, being promoted Lieutenant 1st October 1915. Went to France on 12th July 1915 and was killed in action at the Hohenzollern Redoubt 15th October 1915, aged 20.

De Ruvigny’s Roll of Honour, 1914-1918

Buried/Commemorated : Loos Memorial, France. Panel 87 to 89.

Loos Memorial, France.

Lieutenant Everard Francis Sale Handford is also commemorated on the following local memorials:-
Southwell Minster Parishioners War Memorial, Southwell, Nottinghamshire.
Southwell Minster Church Window Memorial, Southwell, Nottinghamshire.

Southwell Minster Parishioners War Memorial, Southwell, Nottinghamshire.
Southwell Minster Parishioners War Memorial, Southwell, Nottinghamshire.
Southwell Minster Church Window Memorial, Southwell, Nottinghamshire.
Southwell Minster Church Window Memorial, Southwell, Nottinghamshire.

His brother Captain Henry Basil Strutt Handford, 8th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derby) Regiment was also killed in the same action on the same day.