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Births Jun 1889   Evans Arthur Owen Cardigan 11b 7.

 He was the son of John and Elizabeth Evans, and had attended Bridell Council School. Arthur had emigrated to Australia prior to the war, and he enlisted during July 1916 at Victoria Barracks, New South Wales into the Australian Infantry. On 7 October 1916 Arthur embarked at Sydney aboard the S.S. Ceramic, bound for England, and he disembarked on 21 November at Plymouth. After a period of training at Salisbury Plain, Arthur embarked at Folkestone on 8 February 1917, and on arrival in France joined the 13th Battalion, A.I.F., attached to the 4th Australian Brigade, 4th Australian Division. The Division was still on the Somme, and followed the German withdrawal to the Hindenburg Line during March 1917. On 11 April 1917 the Division fought here at the Battle of Bullecourt, before being moved north to positions south of Ypres. Here, they fought at the Battle of Messines. It was here that Arthur was killed on 10 June 1917. He was 27 years old.

He is also honoured on the Cilgerran War Memorial

The town of Cilgerran sits alongside the River Teifi, on the northern edge of Pembrokeshire, bordering Ceredigion to the north. It is the home of Cilgerran Castle, an impressively sited Norman stronghold, which was built around 1100AD. At the gates to the castle are sited both of the towns War Memorials, commemorating the men of the locality who died in both World Wars of the Twentieth Century.