EVANS, Allan Percy Rupert
| Service Number: | 6702 |
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| Enlisted: | 3 October 1915 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 6th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | North Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, June 1888 |
| Home Town: | Moonee Ponds, Moonee Valley, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Clerk |
| Died: | Killed in Action, France, 10 August 1918 |
| Cemetery: |
No known grave - "Known Unto God" Villers-Bretonneux Memorial, Villers-Bretonneux, Picardie, France |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Villers-Bretonneux Memorial |
World War 1 Service
| 3 Oct 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 6702, 6th Infantry Battalion | |
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| 25 Oct 1916: | Involvement Private, 6702, 6th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '8' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Ulysses embarkation_ship_number: A38 public_note: '' | |
| 25 Oct 1916: | Embarked Private, 6702, 6th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Ulysses, Melbourne |
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From How We Served
6702 Private Allan Percy Rupert Evans of Moonee Ponds, Victoria, had been employed as a clerk before enlisting for War Service on the 3rd of October 1916. His Father was Mr Evan Evans, York St, Moonee Ponds, Melbourne, Victoria
Allan was allocated to reinforcement for the 6th Battalion, 1st AIF, and was embarked for training in England where he arrived and was disembarked on the 28th of December.
After completing his training phase in England, Allan was sent over to France on the 29th of May 1917 and following further training he was sent to the trenches where he was formally taken on strength with his Battalion on the 28th of June 1917. Shortly after his arrival Allan was evacuated from the field after having been struck in the head by a bullet on the 19th of September.
Following hospitalisation and a short time at a Convalescent Depot in Boulogne Allan was deemed to have recovered sufficiently enough to be sent back to his Unit.
Allan was returned to his Battalion, and his service would be continuous aside a short period of Leave to England during February 1918, until he was again wounded in action on the 5th of June 1918 sustaining a gunshot wound to his right hand.
Again, hospitalised and receiving a short period of Convalescence at Boulogne, Private Evans was returned to his Battalion and during his Unit's attack on German positions at Lihon's Ridge, on the 10th of August, Allan was struck by a machinegun bullet to the neck. Allan's succumbed to his wounds and he was hastily buried by his comrades in the field close to where he had died. Allan was aged 30.
Following the end of the War, the Graves Registration Unit was unable to locate Allan's actual place of burial, and in lieu of his having no formal grave Allan was instead officially commemorated at the Villers-Bretonneux Memorial, Villers-Bretonneux, Picardie, France.
Back home in Australia, Allan's supreme sacrifice made during 'The Great War'' was privately commemorated at his family's collective burial site within Brighton General Cemetery, Victoria.
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