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EVANS, George
| Service Number: | 2603 |
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| Enlisted: | 19 April 1915, at Keswick |
| Last Rank: | Corporal |
| Last Unit: | 50th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Ballarat, Victoria, Australia, August 1870 |
| Home Town: | Stepney, Norwood Payneham St Peters, South Australia |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Picture Framer |
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World War 1 Service
| 19 Apr 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 2603, 10th Infantry Battalion, at Keswick | |
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| 2 Sep 1915: | Involvement Private, 2603, 10th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '10' embarkation_place: Adelaide embarkation_ship: HMAT Anchises embarkation_ship_number: A68 public_note: '' | |
| 2 Sep 1915: | Embarked Private, 2603, 10th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Anchises, Adelaide | |
| 12 Aug 1916: | Involvement Sergeant, 2603, 50th Infantry Battalion, Mouquet Farm | |
| 24 Aug 1917: | Discharged AIF WW1, Corporal, 2603, 50th Infantry Battalion |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by St Ignatius' College
George Evans was 44 years old when he enlisted. He had light brown eyes and was 5 foot 8 inches tall. His birth place was in Ballarat, Victoria. He moved to Norwood, Adelaide where he took the occupation of becoming a picture framer. As George was 44 years of age when he enlisted, he was one of the older members of the Australian army. He was a married man to the women Catharine Evans. He was a natural born British subject.
George Evans was originally placed in the 10th Battalion but throughout his journey he was later transferred to the 50th Battalion on the 25th of February 1916. His role in the army when he first joined was a private but quickly got promoted to lance corporal and promoted once again to sergeant. While he arrived on Lemnos (the staging post for the operations on Gallipoli) in November 1915 he doesn't seem to have actually reached the peninsula. On the 29th of December 1915 disembarked at Alexandria from Mudros and two days later he was admitted to hospital after contracting influenza. On the 15th of January 1916 he was discharged from hospital. On the 26th of January he proceeds to join the 50th Battalion. On the 12th of June he disembarked at Marseilles, and he fought with the 50th Battalion at Mouquet Farm in August.
In November of 1916 George Evans embarked to England, suffering from myalgia. He reverted to the rank of Corporal. On the 4th of may 1917 he left England and returned to his home land Australia, travelled from Melbourne to Adelaide and on the 24th of the August 1917 he was officially discharged from the A.I.F as medically unfit. George Evans served for a total period of 2 years and 128 days and he was noted down to be a good character. George wasn’t killed at battle and returned safely home.
On the 14th of November 1919, after the end of the war, he re-enlisted for home service in Adelaide and served until July 1920, when he was demobilised. Nothing is known of his later life.