WW1
Evans, Joseph Guy
Studio portrait of 6007 Private (Pte) Joseph Guy Evans, 5th Battalion. A farmer from Weldborough, Tasmania prior to enlistment, Pte Evans embarked with the 19th Reinforcements from Melbourne on HMAT Themistocles on 28 July 1916. Later transferring to the 39th Battalion, he was reported as wounded and missing in action. A subsequent court of enquiry determined that he had been killed in action on 7 June 1917, aged 22. Having no known grave, he is commemorated on the Menin Gate memorial, Ypres, Belgium
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