Name
Albert Evans
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
17/07/1917
34
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
269490
King's (Liverpool Regiment)
2nd/7th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
MERVILLE COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION
I. B. 41.
France
Headstone Inscription
INTO THY HANDS.
UK & Other Memorials
Hitchin War Memorial, St Mary's Church Roll of Honour, Hitchin
Pre War
This man's identification is based on the contemporary Lawson Thompson Scrapbooks, held in Hitchin Museum, in which he was recorded as in the 7th Battalion of the Liverpool Regiment, however no confirmation of his connection to Hitchin has yet been found.
Private Albert Evans of the 2/7th Battalion King's (Liverpool) Regiment with the Regimental Number 269490 who was born in Manchester, resided and enlisted in Salford, Manchester.
He was the son of Elizabeth Evans, of Cheetham Hill, Manchester, and the late Daniel Evans; husband of Maud Evans, of 506, Great Cheetham St., Higher Broughton, Manchester.
Wartime Service
He died, probably from illness, on the 17th July 1917 and was buried in Plot 1, Row B, Grave 41 in the Merville Communal Cemetery Extension approximately six miles north of Bethune in France.
Acknowledgments
David C Baines, Jonty Wild
