Collection related to Captain David Gerald Evans, 8th Battalion; 2399 Private Francis Evans 51st Battalion; 2170 Private Harry Whitty, 37th Battalion Accession Number: AWM2017.1366.2.13.1

Description

Studio portrait of Lieutenant David Gerald Evans, 8th Battalion. A grazier from ‘Redcamp’, Moyhu, Victoria when he enlisted in 1915, he embarked from Melbourne aboard RMS Osterley on 29 September of that year. later Captain (Capt) David Gerald Evans MC. He was awarded the Military Cross (MC) for bravery on the 8/9th of May 1917 when he ‘personally organised and led a bombing attack along a trench, thereby gaining about 200 yards’ wherein ‘by his dash and courage an almost impossible position was improved and placed on a sound and tactical basis’. Capt Evans died of wounds near Polygon Wood, Belgium, on 20 September 1917. In this studio portrait he is wearing the ribbon of the MC suggesting the photograph was taken while Capt Evans was on leave in Paris or England shortly before his death. His brother, 2399 Private Francis Evans, 51st Battalion, was killed in action, also in Belgium, on 13 October 1917.

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Conflicts

• First World War, 1914-1918