Elizabeth Everitt
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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.
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.[1][2][3] She ran over to the crash site and managed to pull one of the US servicemen clear.[4] However, when she returned to try to rescue another, two of the bombs aboard the aircraft exploded and she was killed[1][4] and she was found dead with her arms around a dead serviceman.[2]
