2/7th Battalion, Royal Warwickshire Regiment
William James Evans was born in Cheltenham in the third quarter of 1899 , the fourth child (third son) of James and Annie Evans who, according to the 1911 census, had ten children and at that time were living at 11 Guestriss Cottages, Guestriss Terrace. Marhill. His father was a house painter.
He attended Holy Trinity School and prior to the war was employed by Nathaniel Smith & Co, Mineral Water Makers of Regent Street, Cheltenham and he enlisted in the Royal Warwickshire Regiment. He suffered wounds in at the Battle of Bethune, France on 18 April 1918 and was repatriated to hospital in Glasgow, on 25 April 1918. He died of his wounds, age 18, on 22 June 1918 and was buried in Cheltenham Cemetery, where a standard CWGC headstone marks the grave.
At the time of the compilation of the CWGC Register his parents’ address was shown as 7 Sherborne Street, Cheltenham.
He is commemorated on the Cheltenham Memorial and that in Holy Trinity Church.
Researched by Graham Adams 2 September 2012