Richard Evans

Submitted by Mt Kembla Minin... on Mon, 08/05/2017 - 11:40

First Name:

Richard

Last Name:

Evans

Date Enlisted:

Thursday, March 22, 1917

Rank at Enlistment:

Private

Rank at Discharge:

Private

Unit:

45th Battalion

Service:

Infantry

Awards:

British War Medal

Victory Medal

Details:

Richard Evans (Service No 3749) was born in Port Adelaide, South Australia.

At enlistment Richard was single, 28 years old, worked as a miner and lived in Helensburgh, N.S.W. He listed his brother, Edward, who lived in Adelaide as his next of kin.

Richard embarked from Sydney on HMAT A74 Marathon with 45th Battalion, 10th Reinforcement on 10th May 1917. The troops arrived in England on 20th July 1917 and Richard finally arrived in France on 9th September 1918.

Shortly after, on 18th September, he was wounded and returned to England for treatment of a gun shot wound to his right thigh.

Richard appears to have been in trouble with the military & civil authorities from the time he arrived in England.

He was returned to Australia in September 1919 and discharged on 17th May 1920.

Richard was living in Sydney in 1935.

Sources:

NAA: B2455, EVANS R