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Second Lieutenant Arthur Evans

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Second Lieutenant Arthur Evans

Birth
Aberystwyth, Ceredigion, Wales
Death
31 Mar 1915 (aged 23)
Porthcawl, Bridgend, Wales
Burial
Aberystwyth, Ceredigion, Wales Add to Map
Plot
3. 1N.C. 714.
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Second Lieutenant Arthur Evans served in the Welsh Regiment, 18th Bn.
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Extract from The Roll of Honour, A Biographical record of all members of His Majesty's Naval and Military Forces who have fallen in the War, by the Marquis de Ruvigny, Volume I., The Standard Art Book Company, Ltd, December, 1916:
EVANS, ARTHUR, 2nd Lieutenant, 18th (Service) Battalion, The Welsh Regiment, only surviving son of John Evans, of Broniarth, North Road, Aberystwyth, Solicitor, Coroner for North Cardiganshire and Deputy Town Clerk of Aberystwyth, by his wife, Jane, daughter of John Jones (Ivon), of Aberystwyth; b. Aberystwyth, 26 Feb. 1892; educated 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 Lieutenant to the 18th Welsh Regiment, 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; unmarried. 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."
Second Lieutenant Arthur Evans served in the Welsh Regiment, 18th Bn.
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Extract from The Roll of Honour, A Biographical record of all members of His Majesty's Naval and Military Forces who have fallen in the War, by the Marquis de Ruvigny, Volume I., The Standard Art Book Company, Ltd, December, 1916:
EVANS, ARTHUR, 2nd Lieutenant, 18th (Service) Battalion, The Welsh Regiment, only surviving son of John Evans, of Broniarth, North Road, Aberystwyth, Solicitor, Coroner for North Cardiganshire and Deputy Town Clerk of Aberystwyth, by his wife, Jane, daughter of John Jones (Ivon), of Aberystwyth; b. Aberystwyth, 26 Feb. 1892; educated 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 Lieutenant to the 18th Welsh Regiment, 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; unmarried. 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."

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