Second Lieutenant John William Evans

Army Number : n/a

Battalion : 11th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Born and lived at Matlock Bath, Derbyshire. Son of William Warren Evans and Mary Elizabeth Evans, of 240, St. Thomas’s Road, Derby. He was a bank clerk prior to enlisting. He died of wounds, 10th April 1917, aged 24, received on the 9th April 1917 during the German attack at Hill 60, Belgium.

Buried : Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery, Belgium. Plot 10. Row A. Grave 21.

Second Lieutenant John William Evans is also commemorated on the following local memorials :-
St. Giles Church War Memorial, Derby.