Category: Military
Rank: 2nd Lieutenant
Regiment or Ship: 1st Battalion Royal West Surrey Regiment
Date of Birth: 1895
Place of Birth: Bitterne, Hants.
Date of Death: 25.09.1915
Place of Burial / Memorials:
1. Loos Memorial France 2. Town Memorial Bexhill.
3. St.Stephen’s Church Memorial Bexhill.
Address: Osmington, 58 Dorset Road, Bexhill
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Family Information
Parents:
Father: Arthur Evelyn b.1865 Weymouth, Dorset d.29.1.26
Mother: Elizabeth 1866 Kenilworth, Warwick d.1918
Siblings:
Sister: Elizabeth b.1893 Richmond Surrey.
Sister: Kathleen b.1894 Weymouth Dorset.
Brother: Hercules b.1898 Chiswick, Middlesex d.1962
The 1911 census records 5 live births, 3 deaths.
First World War Experience
Arthur served in France and Flanders. He was awarded the 1915 Star, the British War Medal and the Victory Medal.
Additional Information
His fathers occupation is listed as Private Means (1901/11 censuses).The family had at least three servants, and the children had a governess who lived in (1901 census).
Arthur’s father left over £25,000 in his will in 1926.
Brother Hercules also seved in 1914/18 war and was awarded the Military Cross in September 1918 (he was 20 years of age). He appears to have been a career army man, certainly still serving in 1920 and again in1930.