🇳🇿WWII uncovered: Anzac Day 2022: Honoring the Heroes We Lost: Pilot Officer Carlyle Gray Everiss Saves Village:

 🇳🇿WWII uncovered: Anzac Day 2022: Honoring the Heroes We Lost: Pilot Officer Carlyle Gray Everiss Saves Village:


No one here underestimates the contribution Carlisle Everiss made in sacrificing his own life for the sake of not just the villagers at that time but for all generations to come. 

This tribute is about ensuring he will be remembered not just by Cowie but by the rest of the world, and forging lasting links with his homeland." - Cowie's Local Councillor Gerard O'Brien during the 19 May 2007 Memorial dedication.

Scottish New Zealand Society chairman Peter Leslie said: "His split second decision saved the lives of countless miners and their families and it is only right that his actions should be recognised.

On 19 May 2007 a memorial commemorating the young pilot’s sacrifice was unveiled in Cowie. 

The bronze bust of Everiss was erected atop a rock plinth after £12,000 was raised by local residents.

 Even though some 66 years had passed - Pilot Officer Carlyle Gray Everiss was still celebrated as a hero in the eyes of the Village of Cowie. 

According to the New Zealand Ministry for Culture and Heritage: "Carlyle Gray Everiss was born in Gisborne on 3 December 1914. Following the outbreak of the Second World War he enlisted in the Royal New Zealand Air Force and began pilot training in January 1941. 

After gaining his pilot’s wings in Canada, Everiss was sent to the United Kingdom and posted to No. 58 Operational Training Unit at Grangemouth, beside the Firth of Forth in central Scotland.

"Everiss and another pilot were returning from an air combat exercise on 2 October 1941 when the engine of his Spitfire stalled over the small Scottish mining village of Cowie, about 10 km from Grangemouth. 

With his crippled plane heading straight for a tightly packed row of houses, Everiss refused to bail out and made a desperate attempt to gain altitude.

 While he managed to clear the village his plane was thrown into an uncontrollable tailspin and crashed into a railway siding at a nearby coal mine. 

Villagers pulled Everiss from the burning wreckage but the young pilot passed away shortly afterwards. Gray was 26 years old."

Despite his hero status in Cowie, little was known about Everiss until local resident John Craig travelled to New Zealand in 1979 and tracked down his brother-in-law.

 He lent Craig a photograph of Pilot Officer Everiss in uniform and a painting was commissioned based on this picture.

 The portrait, entitled ‘Carlyle Everiss – The Face of Courage’, was hung in the clubrooms of the Cowie Bowling Club, near the crash site. 

Pilot Officer Carlyle Gray Everiss lies in rest at Grandsable Cemetery in Grangemouth Scotland. Lest We Forget.


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