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VC1064 Arthur Walter Evans
David
Name Arthur Walter Evans No.
VC Issue No. 1064 Awards VC DCM
Regiment Lincolnshire Regiment, 6th Battalion
Later
Now Royal Anglian Regiment
Rank VC Won Lance-Sergeant
Rank End Of Career Sergeant
Place Of Birth 33 Caradoc Road, Seaforth, Litherland, Liverpool, Lancashire, England
Place Of Death At his home, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia or Prince of Wales Hospital
Buried/Location Ashes Park Cemetery, Regent Avenue, Lytham-St-Anne's, Lancashire, England
Cremated North Suburbs Crematorium, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Date Buried/Cremated 29 March 1937
Headstone Headstone Plot/Grave no. Church of England Section A, Grave 483
Gazetted 30 October 1918 (Simpson) & 31 March 1919 (Evans)
VC Presented 6 December 1918 by King George V at Vincent Barracks, Valenciennes, France
Memorials
P Headstone, Park Cemetery, Regent Avenue, Lytham-St-Anne's, Lancashire, England
Evans Crescent, Canberra, ACT, Australia
P Memorial, Rimrose Hope CofE Primary School, Thomson Road, Seaforth, Liverpool
P Victoria Cross Paving Stone, Bowersdale Park, Seaforth Road, Liverpool
By The Way…
In 1914 he changed his name to Walter Simpson, later changing it back to Arthur Evans 1919
VC Held By
Not known
BORN 8 April 1891
DIED 1 November 1936 AGE 45
VC Won 2 September 1918 AGE 27
Place VC Won Near Etaining, France
War/Campaign First World War 1918
