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Person    | Male  Born 1877  Died 23/4/1917

David Brynmor Chiles-Evans

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Commemorated on a memorial as having died in WW1.

David Brynmor Chiles-Evans

A player at the London Welsh Rugby Football Club who was killed in WW1.

2022: Geraint Llewelyn has kindly allowed us to use this photo and has provided the following information: The photo was taken in the summer of 1900 during the Anglo Boer War at the Welsh Hospital, Pretoria, South Africa. Left to right: unknown man, Alicia Williams, 3 unknown men, Matron Marion Lloyd, Dresser David Evans, Surgeon A. W. Hughes, unknown man. (Lloyd and Hughes both later died of enteric fever, aka typhoid). 

Evans joined the Royal Army Medical Corps in 1914 not long after he received his DSO. He returned to France and in March 1917 was promoted from Captain to Lieutenant-Colonel in command of the 3rd (Welch) Field Ambulance. On 23rd April 1917 he was killed in action during the Battle of Arras and buried in the Bethune Town Cemetery, France. He was mentioned in despatches, three times.

While being a magnificent image, that Boer War group shot is not a good photo of Evans. For that go to .

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David Brynmor Chiles-Evans

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London Welsh Rugby club - WW1

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