2 BAR QSA, LEICESTER REGIMENT OFFICER, AWARDED THE MC & K.I.A 11-8-1917 AS A REVEREND WITH THE R.A.CH.D

QSA 1899-1902 With clasps for Cape Colony & South Africa 1902 To- LIEUT.G.M.EVANS.LEICESTER.REGT.
Geoffrey Maynard Evans served with the Leicester Regiment in the Boer War & went on to take holy orders. He served in France with the Royal Army Chaplains department & was awarded the Military Cross in the London gazette 5-6-1917. He was sadly killed in action in France & Flanders 11-8-1917 & is buried in the Divisional Collecting Post Cemetery in Belgium. He is recorded by the CWGC as the late Son of Samuel and Eleanor Sophia Evans, of Cartref, Dovercourt, Essex & was 35 years of age at the time of his death. He has an entry in the Marquis De Ruvigny's roll of honour & was an old boy of Marlborough college.
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