Evans, A W R
ALFRED WILLIAM RICHARD EVANS
Remembered with honour Le Touret Memorial: Panel 44.
He enlisted in Holborn, London; was entitled to the Victory, British War and 1914-15 Star medals, his qualifying date being 11 December 1914, and was presumed killed in action. Unfortunately, Alfred’s Service Record appears to be one that did not survive the World War Two bombing.
Son of Alfred William and Emily Eliza EVANS of King’s Cross, London; husband of Gertrude EVANS of Oxhey, Herts.
His parents married 1882 in the St Pancras, London, district. Alfred died 1923 aged 67; Emily died 1927 aged 68; both in the St Pancras district. Alfred was buried 15 November; Emily 1 September; both in St Pancras Cemetery.
Alfred was born 8 January 1883 in Holborn, and baptised 6 March 1887 at St George’s, Bloomsbury, London. He married 29 September 1907 at St David’s, Islington, London; they had four children. He resided in Watford
On the 1891 Census, a scholar aged 8 he lived in Bloomsbury, with his parents and one sibling. On the 1901 Census, a wine merchant’s porter aged 18, he lived in St Pancras, with his parents and two siblings. On the 1911 Census, he lived in Russell Square, London WC, with his wife and one child.
- 1st S.W. Herts Scout Troop [in St Mary's Parish Church Watford] (4)
- Abbot's Langley Herts War Memorial (17)
- Aldbury Herts War Memorial (1)
- Aldenham Herts War Memorial (located in Letchmore Heath Herts) (8)
- All Saints Church Croxley Green Herts (12)
- All Saints Church Harrow Weald Middx (2)
- All Saints Church Hertford (1)
- All Saints Church King's Langley Herts (1)
- All Saints Church Leavesden Herts (31)
- All Saints Church Witham Essex (3)