Lieutenant-Colonel Chris Welby-Everard
2nd Battalion, Lincolnshire Regiment

But you have to get into that frame of mind where however tired you are, however exhausted you feel, you have just got to go on. Now that is a state of exhaustion that a great many of you, I am sure, have never experienced at all. I have only experienced it once, and that wasn’t really bad, but we shall really be up against the problem and we have just got to pull ourselves together. If you realise it beforehand it will be very much easier to compete with when the moment actually comes.

(Welby-Everand speech, war diary, June 1944)

Born on 9 August 1909 in Spalding, Lincolnshire, Christopher Earle Welby-Everard was a graduate of Corpus Christi College, Oxford and a Territorial Army officer. He was commissioned Lincolnshire Regiment in 1930 and served during Arab revolt in Palestine in 1936. He became battalion adjutant prior to war in September 1939, and afterwards completed staff college at Camberley. Following staff officer duties, in March 1944 he was promoted to lieutenant-colonel and took command of the 2nd Battalion, Lincolnshire Regiment.

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