The Queens Own Royal West Kent R

The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Private C A Evans

Private Charles Alfred EVANS, G/18707, 10th Battalion, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, died of wounds, Flanders, France, at 2.00pm on 9th November 1916.

Born Horsham, Sussex.

24th August 1898, St John, Croydon, Charles Evans, age 24, bachelor, labourer, 21 Cranmer? Road, father Edward Evans, labourer, married Eleanor Wilson, age 26, spinster, Kings Arms Hotel, Katherine Street, father John Wilson, carpenter.

Children - Orange Gwendoline Winifred Evans, born 24th August 1908, Horsham; Albert Edward Joseph Evans, born 17th September 1902, Upper Holloway; William Charles Arthur Evans, born 24th August 1900, Horsham.

1911 Census - 46, Stanley Street, Horsham, Sussex - Charles Evans, head, age 34, married, labourer, building, born Horsham, Sussex; Eleanor Evans, wife., age 37, married 12 years, 3 children, all still alive, born East Finchley; William Evans, son, age 10, school, born Horsham, Sussex; Albert Evans, son, age 8, school, born London; Mary Evans, daughter, age 2, born Horsham, Sussex.

Enlisted Horsham, Sussex, age 39 years & 5 months, height 5ft 6½ inches, bad teeth. Resided 46, Stanley Street, Horsham, Sussex. Formerly engine driver.

Home 11th December 1915 to 3rd October 1916; BEF 4th October 1916 to 9th November 1916.

11th December 1915, enlisted; 12th December 1915, to Army Reserve; 21st June 1916. mobilized; 23rd June 1916, posted 5th Battalion, Royal Fusiliers, Service No.46094; 21st August 1916, Dover, absent from Fire Picquet, 2 days confined to Barracks; 4th October 1916, posted BEF & embarked; 5th October 1916, disembarked; 5th October 1916, Etaples, posted 11th Battalion, Royal Fusiliers; 14th October 1916, transferred to Royal West Kent Regiment, and posted 10th Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment; 7th November 1916, 140 Field Ambulance, wounded in action, shell wound neck & face; 9th November 1916, 10 Casualty Clearing Station, died of wounds.

21st May 1917, pension of 24/2 a week awarded to widow & two children.

Buried at Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery, X. C. 6., Poperinge, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium.

This page was last updated on 20-Nov-2018.