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Auction: 24113 - Orders, Decorations and Medals - e-Auction
Lot: 479

(x) Three: Private W. Evans, Border Regiment, who was Killed in Action at Gallipoli on 23 May 1915

1914-15 Star (10171 Pte. W. Evans. Bord. R.); British War and Victory Medals (10171 Pte. W. Evans. Bord. R.), very fine (3)

William Evans was born in Mile End, Middlesex circa 1891 and lived at Bury St. Edmunds in Suffolk. He enlisted at Stratford, Essex and disembarked for duty in the Balkan Theatre on 23 May 1915 as a Private with the 1st Battalion, Border Regiment. He was killed in action while serving in the Dardanelles the very next month, at the age of twenty-four. Evans is commemorated on the Helles Memorial in Turkey; sold together with copied research.

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Sold for
£120

Starting price
£70