Educated at
Uppingham School, Everard was
commissioned into the
17th/21st Lancers in June 1983. In 1995, as
Chief of Staff,
4th Armoured Brigade, he was deployed to the
United Nations Protection Force HQ, Sector South-West, and subsequently as part of the leading UK element of the
NATO Implementation Force (IFOR) in
Bosnia. in which capacity he was deployed to
Basra in
Iraq where he made an attempt to target
corruption. and returned to their home of
Paderborn in
Germany. He was appointed Director Commitments at
Land Command in 2007,
General Officer Commanding 3rd (UK) Division in 2009 and
Assistant Chief of the General Staff in April 2011. He went on to be
Deputy Chief of the Defence Staff (Military Strategy and Operations) in March 2013 and became Commander Land Forces in September 2014 (post renamed
Commander Field Army in November 2015). In March 2017 he was appointed as NATO's
Deputy Supreme Allied Commander Europe (DSACEUR) and was promoted to the rank of
general. Everard served as Patron of the Army LGBT Forum from 2010. Everard retired from the British Army on 23 September 2020. He was appointed Colonel of
The Royal Lancers (Queen Elizabeth's Own) on 31 December 2024. ==Personal life==