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VC889   Lewis Pugh Evans

Name   Lewis Pugh Evans  No.      

VC Issue No.   889   Awards   VC   CB   CMG   DSO & Bar

Regiment   Black Watch commanding 1st Battalion, Lincolnshire Regiment

Later   

Now   3rd Battalion, The Black Watch, Royal Regiment of Scotland

Rank VC Won   Acting Lieutenant Colonel

Rank End Of Career   Brigadier - General

Place Of Birth   Lovesgrove, Abermadd, near Aberystwyth, Cardiganshire, Wales

Place Of Death   Paddington Railway Station, London, England

Buried/Location Ashes   Llanbadarn Fawr Churchyard, Aberystwyth, Cardiganshire, Wales

Cremated   

Date Buried/Cremated   

Headstone   Headstone    Plot/Grave no.   Family Plot

Gazetted   26 November 1917

VC Presented   2 January 1918 by King George V at Buckingham Palace, London, England

Memorials

P  Headstone, Llanbadarn Fawr Churchyard, Aberystwyth, Cardiganshire, Wales

P  Memorial Plaque, Near War Memorial,  Llanbadarn Fawr, Dyfed, Wales

P  Named on Victoria Cross Memorial, Eaton College, Windsor, Berkshire

By The Way…

He had family connections to two other Victoria Cross winners 128 Willam Cubitt and 137 James Hills-Johnes

VC Held By

The Lord Ashcroft collection I.W.M

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BORN   3 January 1881

DIED   30 November 1962  AGE   81

VC Won   4 October 1917   AGE   36

Place VC Won   Near Joist Farm, Zonnebeke, Belgium

War/Campaign   First World War 1917