Tasmanian War Casualties

WW1

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Evans, Andrew James Edward

Born 1894 Longford Tasmania the son of Enoch and Margaret Evans (nee Ryan) he embarked Hobart 1^st July 1916 on board “HMAT Berrima” with the 40^th Infantry Battalion.

He was killed in action 4^th October 1917 and is commemorated on the Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, Belgium.

Mr Enoch Evans of Beaconsfield has received, through the courtesy of the Agent General (Sir John McCall) some details of the death on

active service of his son Private Andrew James Edward Evans who left Tasmania with the 40^th Battalion. Private Evans was killed on October

4^th in the Brookseinde Battle, east of Ypres. He was shot in the neck but was able to walk out as far as the regimental aid post on the top of

Hill 40. He was standing outside with several others waiting for medical attention when he was hit in the stomach by a large piece of shell and died in a

few moments. His grave is close to where he fell. Captain F C Green writes of the late Private Evans

“I can write feelingly concerning him because he was in my own bombing platoon for a long time and I thought a great deal of him. I remember one

night he was stunned by a shell burst in the front line and was carried out on a stretcher but after he regained consciousness he insisted on coming back

the same night. He never considered himself and would do anything for a mate. The world is the poorer by one good man but there is always the

comfort – he lived and died a man. Any failure can live. It take a man to fight and die

The Weekly Courier 23^rd May 1918

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