Born at Batley, near Manningtree, Essex, c.1818.
Enlisted at Ipswich on the 16th of October 1836.
Age: 18.
Height: 5'6".
Trade: Servant.
Features: Fresh complexion. Grey eyes. Fair hair.
At Scutari General Hospital from the 26th of September 1854 and invalided to England from Abydos Hospital aboard the "City of Norwich" on the 31st of March 1855.
Shown on the Depot roll at Brighton from the 1st of May 1855.
Joined the regiment at Cahir, 1st of June 1856.
Discharged, "invalided", from Dublin on the 16th of October 1858, as:
"Permanently incapacitated by chronic rheumatism and general inactivity that has been produced by length of service and sickness contracted in the East."
Served 19 years 355 days.
In Turkey and the Crimea: 1 year.
Conduct and character: "good".
In possession of three Good Conduct badges
Next of kin (in 1854): Wife, Sarah Everson, living in London.
Aged 37 years 11 months on discharge.
Granted a pension of 9d. per day.
His name appears on the Alma/Inkerman medal roll (but with no qualification for either clasp); neither is he recorded on the Sebastopol clasp roll.
[RM: Spelt "Everison" on roll.]
Living in the Dublin Pension District in 1856, London in 1857, Ipswich in 1858 and in London again from 1861.
Admitted as an In-Pensioner at Chelsea Royal Hospital on the 1st of July 1868.
When he entered the Royal Hospital as an In-Pensioner in July of 1868 he was shown as being 49 years of age, "his family would be provided for by relatives", and he had previously lived at 5, Little Bell Alley, City of London.
Five children are known to have been born into the family: William, at Belfast in 1846; Oswell, at Killkenny in 1850; Sarah M., at Trowbridge in 1852; Alma, at Stepney, London, in 1854; and Robert, at Dublin in 1856.
William Everson died in the West London Pension District on the 5th of April 1872.
He was buried in the Chelsea Pensioner's Plot in Brompton Cemetery. No headstone was erected.