EVANS, George Edward
| Service Number: | 3812 |
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| Enlisted: | 4 December 1915 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 24th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 1882 |
| Home Town: | Fitzroy, Yarra, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Driver |
| Died: | Killed in Action, Pozieres, France, 29 July 1916 |
| Cemetery: |
Serre Road Cemetery No.2 Beaumont Hamel, France Plot XXIII, Row B, Grave No. 10 (Remains discovered 1928) ALL HONOR DUE ALL HONOR GIVE TO A LIFE NOBLY GIVEN OUR DEAR DADDY |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour |
World War 1 Service
| 4 Dec 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 3812, 24th Infantry Battalion | |
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| 8 Feb 1916: | Involvement Private, 3812, 24th Infantry Battalion, Battle for Pozières , --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '14' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Warilda embarkation_ship_number: A69 public_note: '' | |
| 8 Feb 1916: | Embarked Private, 3812, 24th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Warilda, Melbourne |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Stephen Brooks
George was the son of Charles Went and Ellen Mary Evans. His father disappeared and his mother remarried an Isaac Evans when George was 12 years of age. George took the surname Evans.
George married Florence Mary in 1910. They had two sons and one daughter between 1911 and 1915.
George died in his first battle, in the fierce fighting at Pozieres on the 29 July 1916. He was buried on the battlefield. During 1928 the War Graves exhumation teams discovered his remains, identified by a partially legible identity disc.
His younger half-brother (same mother) 1895 Pte. Alfred William Evans 22nd Battalion AIF, was killed in action in Belgium on 4 October 1917, aged 24.
Another younger half-brother 218 Private Ernest Walter Evans 7th Battalion, enlisted in 1914 and served at the Anzac landing. He was returned to Australia with shell shock during early 1916.