10009 Private (Everet or) Everard Moore Bickerstaff was born in Toronto, Ontario on 26 January 1889, the son of Joseph Edwin Bickerstaff and Charlotte Ann Murchison. An uncle, Robert C. Bickerstaff served in the QOR and was at the Battle of Ridgeway.

A brother Harold was awarded a Military Medal in WWI. Another brother Joseph was wounded. A cousin, Lance Corporal Robert Moore Jackson, was killed in action. A great nephew was Lieutenant Colonel Moore Ivan Jackson who served in WWII and later commanded The Queen’s Own Rifles militia battalion.

Bickerstaff was working as a traveller for the Chamberlain Drug Company and had served for six years with the 10th Royal Grenadiers (now the Royal Regiment of Canada) when he enlisted with the 3rd Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force on 22 September 1914. He sailed to England with the 3rd Bn on the S.S. Tunisia on 4 October 1914.

Private Bickerstaff was killed in action at Ypres (Langemarck) on 2 May 1915, aged 25. As has no known grave, his name is commemorated on the Menin Gate Memorial in Ypres, panel 18 – 24 – 26 – 30.