Elizabeth Everitt

Elizabeth Everitt (d. 1944) was posthumously awarded the Albert Medal for Lifesaving after she was killed while attempting to rescue a number of American servicemen from a Douglas A-20 Havoc bomber that crashed near her home in Essex after colliding with another aircraft of the same flight.

Death In May 1944, Everitt, a recently widowed nurse, was out milking cows at her farm in Ashdon near Saffron Walden when a US Havoc bomber crashed in a nearby field. She ran over to the crash site and managed to pull one of the US servicemen clear. However, when she returned to try to rescue another, two of the bombs aboard the aircraft exploded and she was killed The following year her young son, Anthony, received her medal from the King at Buckingham Palace. and on a Portland stone plaque latter added to the Ashdon war memorial.