Second Lieutenant the Rev. Dr. Everard Digges La Touche

Regiment: 6th Reinforcements 2nd Battalion Australian Imperial Force
Date published: 26/11/1915
Killed in action: Yes
Date of death: 06/08/1915
Age at death: 32
Cemetery: Lone Pine Cemetery, Anzac, Turkey
Plot: I. E. 3.
Information: Second Lieutenant the Rev. Dr. Everard Digges La Touche, 6th Reinforcements 2nd Battalion Australian Imperial Force, was killed in action between August 6th and 8th. He was the eldest son of Mrs. E. N. Digges La Touche and the late Major E. N. Digges La Touche, Bengal Infantry and Assam Commission. Educated at Bedford Grammar School he afterwards entered Trinity College, Dublin. He was a brilliant Scholar and Gold Medallist of his University. In 1910 he was appointed Donnellan Lecturer, and at the same time he published “Christian Certitude,” for which he received the hon. degree of Litt.D. from his University. In 1912, being in delicate health, he went to Australia and worked there, principally in Sydney, as Diocesan Missioner, where he became well known. On the outbreak of the war he immediately volunteered for the front and came with the reinforcements to Egypt, arriving on July the 18th. He fell in his first battle at Suvla Bay.