Gunner 97527 James Evans
Regiment/Unit: Royal Garrison Artillery - 287th Siege Bty.
Theatre of War: France & Flanders
Age at death: 36
Date of death: 29th of June 1917
Born: Whiston, Lancs
Resided: Rainhill, Lancs
Burial / Memorial: Belgian Battery Corner Cemetery - I. D. 1.
BMD details:
Marriage: 20/02/1911 James EVANS to Ada YATES at Whiston St Nicholas CE.
Census details:
1881 - 4 months old James is living at Potteries, Whiston with parents Edward (39), Elizabeth (31) and three siblings: Margaret A. (11), John (8), Edward (4). 1891 - 10 years old James is living at Whiston Potteries, Whiston with parents Edward (49), Elizabeth (41) and three siblings: John (18), Edward (13), Thomas (6). 1901 - 20 years old 'Domestic Gardener' James is living at Stank Lane, Whiston with parents Edward (59), Elizabeth (52) and three siblings: Edward (23), Thomas (16), Walter (8). 1911 - Sees 30 years old 'Domestic Gardener' James living at Briars Hey Lodge, Mill Lane, Rainhill with wife of less than one year Ada (32).
Notes:
[url=lmem.php?lmem=50]Remembered on St Anne's War Memorial, Rainhill[/url] Age taken from census.
[url=lmem.php?lmem=50]Remembered on St Anne's War Memorial, Rainhill[/url] Age taken from census.
[pic]imgs/S1PWHYAOTV/97527_J_Evans_RGA_zpsfb630adb.jpg[/pic][caption]The headstone of Gunner James Evans at Belgian Battery Corner Cemetery
(Photo courtesy of Frederik Sohier)[/caption]
