Today | News | Books | Recipes Adventure | Science Fiction | Ghost stories | Poetry | Children | History Bookit was in great part due to the gallant behaviour of his company that we were eventually able to repel the attack. I cannot speak too highly of your son's behaviour, and, although he had been with us so short a time, he had endeared himself to both officers and men." [Illustration: =Murray R. Sweet-Escott.=] =ETHERTON, CHARLES EDWARD=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 5096), 199736, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914. =ETHERTON, HENRY JOHN=, Private, R.M.L.I., Po./16052, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914. =EVANS, ALEXANDER EASSON=, C.E., Lieut., No. 2 Field Coy. Canadian R.E., _s._ of the Rev. Maurice John Evans; _b._ Stratford-on-Avon, co. Warwick, 6 Jan. 1872; educ. Herriott-Watt College, Edinburgh; went to Canada, and became a Civil Engineer; volunteered for service overseas on the outbreak of war, and enlisted in the 3rd Battn. in Oct. 1914; promoted Corpl.; left Victoria, British Columbia, for England, 14 Feb. 1915; trained at Shorncliffe, where he was drafted into the 7th Battn.; crossed to France the first week in May, and went straight up to the trenches; took part in the fighting at Festubert, 23-26 May, where he displayed great gallantry and was given a commission as Lieut. and posted to the Canadian Royal Engineers in Oct.; appointed Brigade Wiring Officer, and was shot by a sniper while attending to wire entanglements on the night of 5 Jan. 1916. His commanding officer wrote that he was mourned by all his brother officers as an efficient officer, and an unselfish comrade. Lieut. Evans _m._ at Newcastle-on-Tyne, 1899, Ethel A. B. (_d._), 6th dau. of J. G. Fenwick, of Newcastle-on-Tyne, and had two children: Maurice John, _b._ 3 May, 1900 and Helen Margaret, _b._ 2 Oct. 1902. [Illustration: =Alexander Easson Evans.=] =EVANS, ARTHUR=, 2nd Lieut., 18th (Service) Battn. The Welsh Regt., only surviving _s._ of John Evans, of Broniarth, North Road, Aberystwyth, Solicitor, Coroner for North Cardiganshire and Deputy Town Clerk of Aberystwyth, by his wife, Jane, dau. of John Jones (Ivon), of Aberystwyth; _b._ Aberystwyth, 26 Feb. 1892; educ. Towyn County School, and on leaving there was articled to Mr. Bassett, A.R.I.B.A., Aberystwyth. On completing his articles he entered the service of Mr. Sydney Moss, F.R.I.B.A., Manchester, and gave promise of a successful career as an architect and land surveyor, but after the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914, he returned home, joined the University College of Wales (Aberystwyth) O.T.C. in Oct., and on 19 Feb. 1915, was gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the 18th Welsh Regt., then in training under Col. Homfray at Porthcawl, Glamorgan. On 31 March, 1915, he was thrown off a motor cycle while out riding with some brother officers near Porthcawl, and died the same day at King Edward VII Hospital (Bedford House), Cardiff; _unm._ He had been very eager to get to the Front, and his commanding officer wrote that he "had proved himself to be a very capable officer." [Illustration: =Arthur Evans.=] =EVANS, EDWARD=, Private, No. 1682, 2nd Battn. Monmouthshire Regt. (T.F.), elder _s._ of the late Edward Evans, by his wife, Abigail (2, Gibson's Steps, High Street, Pontypool); _b._ Cardiff, 27 Oct. 1897; educ. National School there; enlisted early in 1912, and was killed in action in France, 30 Dec. 1914. Capt. L. P. A. Rolls wrote: "Your son had been my servant ever since the beginning of Oct., when we were in Northampton, and had been with me till he met his death. I cannot tell you what a good willing lad he was in all that he did for me. He was killed like so many other--nobly doing his duty in the trenches." =EVANS, EDWARD FRANK=, S.B.A., M. 4751, H.M.S. Hawke, _s._ of Edward Evans, of 2, Clisby Cottages, Iver Lane, Cowley, co. Middlesex; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914. =EVANS, HERBERT CLYDE=, B.A., LL.B., Barrister-at-Law, Lieut.-Commander, Nelson Battn. Royal Naval Division, yst. _s._ of the late John Thomas Evans, of Gisborne, New Zealand, shipowner, by his wife, Emma; _b._ Oamaru, N.Z., 26 April, 1883; educ. Gisborne (N.Z) High School; and was apprenticed in one of his father's ships, and served eight years in the mercantile service. He was first officer in a ship in the service of the Russians during the Russo-Japanese War, and was at the fall of Port Arthur; he was wrecked near Siberia, where his eyesight was so injured by the frost that he had to relinquish the sea. He then entered St. John's College, Cambridge, taking a second-class B.A. and second-class LL.B., and was called to the Bar at the Inner Temple, June, 1914. On the outbreak of war he was appointed lecturer to officers by the Admiralty, and given a commission as Lieut.-Commander in the Royal Naval Division, 1 Oct. 1914. He left for the Dardanelles on 3 March, and was killed in action there, near Achi Baba, 5 June, 1915. Lieut.-Com. Evans was mentioned in Sir Ian Hamilton's Despatches [London Gazette, 5 Nov. 1915], for gallant and distinguished service in the field. He _m._ at Fairwarp Church, Sussex, 25 March, 1913, Constance (Clevedon, Newick, Sussex), dau. of the Rev. George Whelpton Johnson, Vicar of Fairwarp, and had two daus.: Constance Joy Nelson, _b._ 7 Aug. 1914; and Grace Nina Clyde, _b._ posthumous, 9 Aug. 1915. =EVANS, JAMES=, L.-Corpl., No. 12922, 11th (Service) Battn. Royal Scots, 5th _s._ of William Evans, of 19, Main Street, Thornliebank, near Glasgow, employee in the Thornliebank Calico Print Works, by his wife, Mary, dau. of Robert Williamson, Fireman; _b._ Thornliebank, afsd., 14 July, 1888; educ. Thornliebank Public School; worked for some time in the Thornliebank Calico Print Works, and was later a warehouseman in the employ of Cerebos, Ltd., Drysalters, Glasgow; enlisted, 31 Aug. 1914; and died in Field Lazarette 9, Bauvin, 29 Sept. 1915, of wounds received in action at Loos; _unm._ =EVANS, JAMES=, Able Seaman, Ch./167339 R.F.R.B. 3892, 2nd _s._ of James Evans, Coal Miner, by his wife, Annie Elizabeth; _b._ Ludgate, Durham, 3 Dec. 1875; educ. Sunderland; joined the Navy, 27 May, 1892; Boy, 2nd Class, H.M.S. Boscawen, 4 June, 1892-30 June, 1893; Boy, 1st Class, H.M.S. Boscawen, 1 July-2 Dec. 1893; Ordinary Seaman, H.M. Ships Pembroke, 3 Dec. 1893-8 Jan. 1894, and Sabellite, 9 Jan. 1894-30 April, 1896; A.B., H.M. ships Sabellite, 1 May, 1896-6 Aug. 1897; Pembroke, Aug. 1897-23 Feb. 1898; Wildfire, 24 Feb.-20 July, 1898; Pembroke, 21 July-9 Aug. 1898; Galatea, 10 Aug. 1898-10 April, 1899; Forte, 11 April, 1899-14 May, 1902; Pembroke, 15 May-26 Sept. 1902; Anson, 27 Sept. 1902-4, and Pembroke, 7 May-31 Dec. 1904, when he obtained his discharge with conduct "Very good." Served in the Gambia, 1894, and through the South Africa War, 1899-25 June, 1900; landed for the protection of Durban, 24 Nov. 1899; took part in the operations with Natal Field Force, including the Battles of Botha's Pass and Allman's Nek and occupation of Utrecht, Volkorust a |