Private
Walter Evans
24692 8th East Lancashire Regiment
Missing in Action 23rd April 1917, aged 29
Lived in the Tim Bobbin Hotel
Buried in Point du Jour Military Cemetery, France - I.E.6.
Burnley Express 1st
March 1919
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Burnleys Great War Centenary |
Adopted by: Emma Schofield
Burnley Youth Council |
On you roll
of honour, my uncles age is stated as 23, he was in fact born in 1888
making him 29.
(The Burnley Exptess article above, presumably incorrectly, states his
age as 23)
(Courtesy of his niece Ann Worton)
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