| Surname: | Evans |
| Initials: | W R |
| Rank: | Lance Corporal |
| Army Number: | P/5327 |
| Notes: | MFP. Awarded the Victory and War Medals. First served abroad (1) France, 3/3/1917. Found in other documents: Proceedings of a court of enquiry assembled at Calais on 30/6/1919, by order of Brigadier General C B L James, CBCKC Commanding Troops Town Port, Calais for the purpose of investigating the circumstances under which WR/305061 Spr. W. Small, RE, IWT came by his death. 3rd Witness. P/5327 L/cpl W E Evans, MFP states:- At 08.00 hrs on the 27th June, 1919, Sgt Richards, MFP gave me instructions to proceed to the Boulevard Internationale as he had received a telephone message that a British soldier had been found in the water there. I proceeded to the Boulevard Intenationale where I found a body still in the water which had been towed to the quay steps by some fisherman by means of a rope tied to the deceased by his belt, I pulled the body out of the water and sent for an ambulance, the body was taken to the 35th General Hospital. Signed W R Evans, L/Cpl, MFP. WR/308061 Spr William Small, Inland Waterways Department, Royal Engineers died 23/6/1919, age 21 years and is buried in Les Baraques Military Cemetery, Sangatte, in XVII. A. 20, Calais. |