Lance Corporal 198906 Percival Thomas Evans 57Th Signal Coy, Royal Engineers was the eldest of the 3 children of gunmaker Thomas Evans and Mary Ann Evans nee Taylor. Prior to WW1 Percival was employed as a Post Office telegraphist. He passed away of illness (left empyema and septicemia) at the 1st Western General Hospital, Fazakerley, Liverpool and was laid to rest at St Nicholas Churchyard aged 32. His parents lived close by at Henley.
Percival was awarded the British War, Victory and Star medals. His next of kin would have been sent the Memorial Death Plaque of WW1. He is commemorated on the Birmingham Head Post Office Staff memorial to those who lost their lives in the Great War, and also on a plaque at St John the Baptist Church, Henley in Arden.
Commemorated in perpetuity by Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
Lance Corporal 198906 Percival Thomas Evans 57Th Signal Coy, Royal Engineers was the eldest of the 3 children of gunmaker Thomas Evans and Mary Ann Evans nee Taylor. Prior to WW1 Percival was employed as a Post Office telegraphist. He passed away of illness (left empyema and septicemia) at the 1st Western General Hospital, Fazakerley, Liverpool and was laid to rest at St Nicholas Churchyard aged 32. His parents lived close by at Henley.
Percival was awarded the British War, Victory and Star medals. His next of kin would have been sent the Memorial Death Plaque of WW1. He is commemorated on the Birmingham Head Post Office Staff memorial to those who lost their lives in the Great War, and also on a plaque at St John the Baptist Church, Henley in Arden.
Commemorated in perpetuity by Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
Inscription
SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF PERCIVAL THOMAS EVANS RE, ONLY SON OF THOMAS AND MARY EVANS OF BEAUDESERT, WHO DIED FOR HIS COUNTRY AUGUST 6 1918 AGED 32 YEARS.
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