Name
George William Evans
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
14/05/1918
41
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
31142
Royal Fusiliers *1
34th County of London) Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
MONT HUON MILITARY CEMETERY, LE TREPORT
VI. G. 12A.
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Hertford Town Memorial All Saints Church Memorial, Hertford
Pre War
Born in 1877 in Hertford and baptised on 17 Jun 1877 in Hertford son of George and Elizabeth Ann Evans and lived at 21 Hartham Lane, Hertford. He was a general labourer and was unmarried.
Wartime Service
Enlisted at Bedford on 29 Mar 1916 as Private 31142 Royal Fusiliers. He embarked at Southampton on 7 May 1916 and arrived in Le Havre the next day. He then transferred to (60130) 101st Company, Labour Corps. on 14 May 1917. He suffered gas in the front line on 13 May 1918 and died the next day of pneumonia.
Additional Information
*1 Believed more
correctly, (County of London) Bn London Regiment – some sources suggest it was
a Labour Battalion.
Acknowledgments
Malcolm Lennox
