Today | News | Books | Recipes Adventure | Science Fiction | Ghost stories | Poetry | Children | History Booknd Wakestroom, and was awarded the Ashanti medal with clasp (Gambia, 1894), 21 March, 1896; the South African medal with five clasps (Tugela Heights, Relief of Ladysmith, Laing's Nek, Transvaal, Orange Free State), 1 Dec. 1902; and the Good Conduct medal. On leaving the Navy he entered the P. & O. service, but on mobilisation was called up, 5 Aug. 1914, and appointed to H.M.S. Cressy, in which he was lost when she was torpedoed in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. He _m._ at St. Luke's Church, Tidal Basin, 6 Jan. 1906, Annie Elizabeth (113, Jersey Road, Custom House, London), dau. of Alexander James George Tyler, and had four children: James George Alexander, _b._ 3 March, 1909; Annie Elizabeth Lilian, _b._ 16 Sept. 1910; Hilda Violet, _b._ 15 April, 1912; and Doris Ivy, _b._ 8 Aug. 1914. [Illustration: =James Evans.=] =EVANS, JAMES WRIGHT=, Stoker, 2nd Class, K. 20456, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914. =EVANS, THOMAS HATFIELD=, Lieut., 3rd Battn. Australian Imperial Forces, only _s._ of the late Thomas Evans, of Huyton, by his wife, Alice Stewart (Honors Mead, Bovington, Herts), dau. of John Smyth Hatfield, of Innellan, Argyleshire; _b._ Huyton, co. Lancaster, 18 May, 1881; educ. Sedbergh; joined the Leicestershire Imperial Yeomanry when 18 on the outbreak of the South African War, and served through that campaign, 1899-1901, receiving the Queen's medal with four clasps (Rhodesia, Cape Colony, Transvaal, South Africa). He went to Australia about May, 1913, but when war was declared in Aug 1914, he volunteered and joined the Commonwealth Expeditionary Force, and was given a commission as Lieut. 1 Jan. 1915. He was killed at Gaba Tepe during the landing at the Dardanelles, 26 April, 1915; _unm._ He was mentioned in Sir Ian Hamilton's Despatch [London Gazette, 5 Aug. 1915], for gallant and distinguished conduct in the field. His commanding officer, Col. Owen, C.M.G., wrote: "On landing at Anzac Cove he showed great energy, courage and ability in the handling of his machine gun section, and notwithstanding the difficult country and absence of day transport, he had his gun in action at an early hour in the front line of defence, where he remained till he fell. It devolved on him to stop the firing of a machine gun of another battn. which was firing too close to our troops, and the ground was swept by a heavy rifle and machine gun fire. However, he safely returned, to my great relief. Later, whilst I was temporarily at another part of the firing line, the same gun again became dangerous, and a message reached your son to that effect from Major Brown, of my battn. Lieut. Evans again went over, and when returning stopped to succour a wounded man who had been left in the open. Having bound up the man's wound, he tried to carry him back to safety, but was hit repeatedly. Though badly wounded he still tried to save his man, to the admiration of all those who saw his gallant conduct. An attempt was made by my men to rescue them, but your son was riddled with bullets and died a hero. I may mention that I recommended your son for the V.C. on account of his distinguished valour in the field, and his name is one of three in my battn. who were specially mentioned in Sir Ian Hamilton's Despatches"; and one of his men (Private F. G. Hallett): "Your son was a man to be proud of, for he carried four wounded men to the stretcher-bearer station under heavy fire." He also wrote: "We had to cross a deep gully which was infested with Turkish snipers. It seemed as if some of us would be killed, but we reached our destination without a single casualty, entirely owing to the cool and skilful way in which Lieut. Evans handled us. He was a fine example to us all." Capt. White also wrote: "From all accounts by men near him he died a hero's death. As a machine gunner himself he must have realised it was certain death that awaited him when he rushed to rescue a wounded comrade from a zone of bullets from one of the enemy's machine guns." Lieut. Evans was a keen sportsman and athlete, and exceptionally powerful swimmer and a first-class shot. [Illustration: =Thomas Hatfield Evans.=] =EVANS, WILLIAM ALFRED=, Petty Officer, 199251, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914. =EVANS, WILLIAM HERBERT=, Major, 11th (Service) Battn. The Royal Scots, _s._ of James S. Evans, of Montreal, Canada; _b._ Montreal, 27 Feb. 1872; educ. there; was for some time a member of the Victoria Rifles, Montreal; afterwards served in the North-West Mounted Police for two years; on returning to Montreal joined the 5th Battn. Royal Scots of Canada, and subsequently took command of the Prince of Wales' Fusiliers of Montreal. He served through the South African War, and on the outbreak of the European War, came over to England and was given a commission in the 11th (Service) Battn. of the Royal Scots, 22 Oct. 1914. He went to France, and was killed while in Billets, 14 Aug. 1915. He _m._ at Montreal, 19 Dec. 1894, May L. (791, University Street, Montreal, Canada), dau. of (--) Romeril, and had three children: William, _b._ 25 Dec. 1902; Enid, _b._ 17 Sept. 1895; and Doris, _b._ 17 Feb. 1898. [Illustration: =William Herbert Evans.=] =EVANS, WILLIAM JAMES=, A.B., 221679, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914. =EVASON, WILLIAM DODD=, A.B. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 1131), 162903, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. =EVATT, GEORGE RALEIGH KERR=, Capt., 1st Battn. (57th Foot) Middlesex Regt., only _s._ of Surgeon-General George Joseph Hamilton Evatt, of Wayside, Camberley, co. Surrey, late of the Army Medical Staff, and Hon. Colonel of the Home Counties Division Territorial R.A.M.C., M.D., C.B., by his wife, Sophie Mary Frances, dau. of William Walter Raleigh Kerr, Treasurer of Mauritius, and granddau. of Major-Gen. Lord Robert Kerr [4th _s._ of William John, 5th Marquis of Lothian, K.T.]; _b._ Royal Military Academy, at Woolwich (where Surgeon-Gen. Evatt held the post of Medical Officer in Charge), 30 Sept. 1883; educ. Cheltenham College, and afterwards prepared by private tutor for University Matriculation. He entered the Middlesex Regt. as a University candidate 12 March, 1904, having passed through the necessary studies at St. John's College, Cambridge, where his tutor was Sir Donald MacAlister, now principal of Glasgow University; was promoted Lieut. 9 May, 1906, and Capt. Sept. 1914. He served with the West African Frontier Force from April, 1909, to Dec. 1914, when he came home and rejoined his regiment. He was killed while in the trenches only 400 yards from the German lines, near La Boutillerie, about 3¼ miles south of Armentières, by a bullet in the temple, fired by a German sharp-shooter, 13 Nov. 1914, and was buried in the grounds of a private château near the trenches; _unm._ At the time of his death he was in command of A Coy. of the same ba |