EVANS, David Walter
| Service Number: | 3742 |
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| Enlisted: | 12 October 1915, at Adelaide |
| Last Rank: | Lieutenant |
| Last Unit: | 1st Pioneer Battalion |
| Born: | Glanville, South Australia, Australia, January 1894 |
| Home Town: | Semaphore, Port Adelaide Enfield, South Australia |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Clerk |
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World War 1 Service
| 12 Oct 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 3742, 10th Infantry Battalion, at Adelaide | |
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| 2 Dec 1915: | Involvement Private, 3742, 10th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '10' embarkation_place: Adelaide embarkation_ship: RMS Malwa embarkation_ship_number: '' public_note: '' | |
| 2 Dec 1915: | Embarked Private, 3742, 10th Infantry Battalion, RMS Malwa, Adelaide | |
| 2 Aug 1916: | Promoted AIF WW1, Lieutenant, 1st Pioneer Battalion |
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David Walter Evans was born in approximately 1894 in Glanville, South Australia. He shared the name David with his father and his mother’s name is unknown. At enlistment, David had dark hair and grey eyes, was 172 centimetres tall and weighed 54 kilograms. Before enlisting David was a clerk as his job and lived in Water Street, Semaphore, South Australia. He was 21 years old and single. David was a customs clerk which is a clerk that has an administrative and clerical role in the preparation and processing of customs documents
David enlisted in the AIF on the 25th of October 1915 and was 21 and 10 months old. He enlisted as a private soldier in the 10th battalion, attached to the 12th reinforcement. His service number was 3742. When David embarked for the war it was the 2nd of December 1915 and the ship he embarked on was the RMS Malwa. He sailed to Egypt and joined the 10th Battalion on 17th March 1916. In May 1916 he was transferred to the 1s5 Pioneer Battalion as a Second Lieutenant. In August he was promoted to Lieutenant after temporary secondment to the 2nd Tunnelling Company. He got through the war unscathed except for a bout of influenza in November 1918.
David stayed overseas after the war ended and was 25 when he met up with a girl which then became his wife. Her name was Hilda Mary Rugg and her father was Henry George Rugg. Hilda was 21 at the time. They got married on the 29th of July 1919 and got married by someone named Thomas C. Morris Registrar. THe married couple left England for Australia on 30 October 1919. From the war David got 3 badges, the first one was the Victory badge which means you survived the war. Next the British war medal which is awarded to officers and men of the British and Imperial forces for service, and lastly the star medal which is awarded to officers and men of British and Imperial forces who served in any theatre of the First World War against the Central European powers during 1914 to 1915. No details of David's later life are known.