Dudley Everett

{{short description|Australian cricketer and RAAF officer}} {{Use dmy dates|date=March 2025}} {{Use Australian English|date=November 2014}} {{Infobox cricketer | name = Dudley Everett | country = Australia | fullname = Dudley Tabor Everett | birth_date = 9 March 1912 | birth_place = Perth, Western Australia | death_date = 3 May 1943 (aged 31) | death_place = near Ameliasburgh, Ontario, Canada | nickname = | heightft = | heightinch = | heightm = | batting = Right-handed | bowling = | role = Opening batsman | club1 = Western Australia | year1 = 1935/36 | columns = 1 | column1 = First-class | matches1 = 1 | runs1 = 0 | bat avg1 = 0.00 | 100s/50s1 = 0/0 | top score1 = 0 | hidedeliveries = true | catches/stumpings1 = 0/– | date = 29 December | year = 2014 | source = https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/16/16008/16008.html CricketArchive }} Flight Lieutenant '''Dudley Tabor Everett''' (9 March 1912 – 3 May 1943) was a Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) officer and cricketer. He played a single first-class cricket match for Western Australia during the 1935–36 season. He was killed in a training accident in Canada during World War II.

Everett was born in Perth in March 1912,<ref>[https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/16/16008/16008.html Dudley Everett] – CricketArchive. Retrieved 29 December 2014.</ref> and went to Hale School. He played cricket and football at school,<ref name="waf">[http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article75873293 "W.A. FLIER HURT IN AIR FATALITY"] – ''The Mirror'', 4 January 1941. Retrieved 29 December 2014.</ref> going to play grade cricket for North Perth (now Joondalup) in the local competition.<ref>[http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article75451425 "Cricketers Will Be In Action"] – ''The Mirror'', 2 October 1937. Retrieved 29 December 2014.</ref> A right-handed opening batsman known for his fielding at cover,<ref>[http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article58653407 "THE IMPORTANCE OF FIELDING"] – ''The Sunday Times'', 13 December 1931. Retrieved from Trove, 29 December 2014.</ref> Everett's single first-class match for Western Australia came in October 1935, against a touring MCC side led by Errol Holmes.<ref>[https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/16/16008/First-Class_Matches.html First-class matches played by Dudley Everett (1)] – CricketArchive. Retrieved 29 December 2014.</ref> Opening the batting with Frederick Taaffe, he was bowled for a duck by Sandy Baxter in Western Australia's only innings, with the match finishing in a draw after three days.<ref>[https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/15/15627.html Western Australia v Marylebone Cricket Club], Marylebone Cricket Club in Australia and New Zealand 1935/36 – CricketArchive. Retrieved 29 December 2014.</ref> As well as playing cricket, Everett was also a talented field hockey player. As a centre-half or inside-right, he played for Perth and Old Haleians in local competitions, and represented Western Australia at several inter-state carnivals.<ref>[http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article83235120 "RECORD HOCKEY SEASON EXPECTED"] – ''The Daily News''. Retrieved from Trove, 29 December 2014.</ref>

Having gained his pilot's licence in January 1935,<ref>[http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article84230843 "The Amateur Airman"] – ''The Daily News''. Retrieved from Trove, 29 December 2014.</ref> Everett was called up to the RAAF on the outbreak of war in 1939. He was initially stationed at RAAF Pearce, near Perth, and later worked as an instructor at the Central Flying School (at Camden Aerodrome) and the Elementary Training School (at RAAF Narrandera), both in country New South Wales.<ref name="waf"/> At Narrandera, he was one of four WA state cricketers, the others being Gordon Eyres, Keith Jeffreys, and Alexander Barras.<ref>[http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article58960404 "Four State Cricketers in R.A.A.F."] – ''The Sunday Times'', 12 January 1941. Retrieved from Trove, 29 December 2014.</ref> While stationed there in January 1941, he severely fractured his leg while working at a makeshift office next to a landing strip at Grong Grong, after the wingtip of a trainee pilot's Tiger Moth clipped his desk. The pilot of the Tiger Moth was killed in the incident, with his instructor, acting as co-pilot, severely injured.<ref>[http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article84005683 "WA Man Hurt In Plane Crash"] – ''The Daily News'', 4 January 1941. Retrieved from Trove, 29 December 2014.</ref>

In December 1942, Everett and Eyres, who had gone to school together as well as both playing state cricket, were selected to train with the Royal Air Force (RAF) in Britain, as part of the Empire Air Training Scheme.<ref>[http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article47358023 "WA Men Selected to Attend."] – ''The West Australian''. Retrieved 29 December 2014.</ref> By early 1943, he was training with the Royal Canadian Air Force at RCAF Base Trenton, in southern Ontario. While on a solo practice flight in a Harvard II on 3 May 1943, he crashed outside of Ameliasburgh, and was killed. Everett held the rank of flight lieutenant at the time of his death, and was buried in Trenton, Ontario.<ref>[http://www.awm.gov.au/people/rolls/R1702987/ Roll of Honour: Dudley Tabor Everett] – Australian War Memorial. Retrieved 29 December 2014.</ref>

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