EVANS, Valentine Francis Murray
| Service Number: | 2647 |
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| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 28th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Albany, Western Australia, 1894 |
| Home Town: | Not yet discovered |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Not yet discovered |
| Died: | Accident, Naracoorte, South Australia, 18 February 1928 |
| Cemetery: |
Mount Gambier Lake Terrace Cemetery section B, grave 398. |
| Memorials: |
World War 1 Service
| 2 Nov 1915: | Involvement Private, 2647, 28th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '16' embarkation_place: Fremantle embarkation_ship: HMAT Ulysses embarkation_ship_number: A38 public_note: '' | |
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| 2 Nov 1915: | Embarked Private, 2647, 28th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Ulysses, Fremantle |
V F M Evans
Lake Terrace Cemetery-In Loving Memory of V F Murray Evans, who was accidentally killed, 18th Feb 1928. Valentine Francis Murray Evans was born 1894, in Western Australia, the eldest son of Arthur & Annie Evans. He was educated at the Caulfield Grammer School in Melbourne, and afterwards entered the engineering firm of Kent & Sons, in Perth. He served with the 28th Battalion during WW1 and was twice wounded. On return he took a position in the Railway workshops at Naracoorte. He died while repairing his motor car, with both front wheels removed and the vehicle up on wooden blocks, it fell while he was underneath and he died instantly. While living in the South-East, he had met Miss Mavis Jessie Fitzgerald, daughter of Alex & Mary, of Mount Gambier, and they were engaged to be married. Valentine was given a full military funeral. Mavis Jessie Fitzgerald never married and passed away 23rd Dec 1993, aged 91 years and was laid to rest at Carinya Gardens.
Submitted 26 April 2020 by Jason Beare
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