Lance Corporal Richard Blanchard Evans

Army Number : 4926

Battalion : 1/5th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Born at Ashby Parva, Leicestershire. Son of William and Eliza Jane Evans, of Ashby Parva, Leicestershire. He was a Grocer’s Assistant prior to enlisting at Derby. He died of wounds 10th December 1916, at No. 20 Casualty Clearing Station, Warlincourt, France.

Buried : Warlincourt Halte British Cemetery, Saulty, France. Plot 3. Row H. Grave 11.

Lance Corporal Richard Blanchard Evans is also commemorated on the following local memorials :-
St. Peter’s War Memorial, Ashby Parva, Leicestershire.