The Queens Own Royal West Kent R

The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Private R Evans

Photograph by "Military Historian"

Private Richard EVANS, G/1486, 7th Battalion, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, died of wounds, Flanders, France, 9th August 1916.

Born St Giles, Holborn, Middlesex.

15th November 1903, St Augustine, Paddington, Westminster, Richard Evans, age 18, bachelor, bottle washer, 8 Granville Road, father Richard Evans, (deceased), married Rhoda Caroline Starkey, age 17, spinster, 8 Granville Road, father William Starkey, (deceased), cabinet maker.

1911 Census - 26 Lowfield Road, West Hampstead, London NW - Richard Evans, head, age 26, married, general labourer, born Holborn, London; Rhoda C Evans, wife, age 24, married 7 years, 5 children, 3 still alive, born Willesden, London; Emily Evans, daughter, age 5, born Kilburn; Annie Evans, daughter, age 2, born Hampstead; Rhoda Evans, daughter, age 1, born Hampstead.

Enlisted Kilburn, Middlesex. Resided West Hampstead, Middlesex.

26th July 1915, posted BEF.

1918, September, Hampstead, Rhoda C Evans died aged 30.

Children (possible) - all births registered in Hampstead Registration District - 1912 December, Richard A Evans; 1914 December. Grandmother & Guardian Emily Tanner?.

Buried at Trois Arbres Cemetery , I. A. 7. Steenwerck, Nord, France.

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