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

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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