Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Chief Boatman D. Evans, Royal Navy

East and West Africa 1887-1900, for Mwele 1895, 2 clasps, Brass River 1895, Benin 1897 (D. Evans, A.B., H.M.S. St. George.); British War Medal 1914-20 (142727 D. Evans. Ch. Btn. R.N.); Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., E.VII.R. (David Evans, Boatn. H.M. Coast Guard.) very fine (3) £600-£800

Dix Noonan Webb, September 2003.

David Evans was born in Pembrokeshire on 3 June 1872 and joined the Royal Navy as a Boy Second Class on 5 September 1887. Advanced Able Seaman on 24 November 1891, he served in H.M.S. St. George from 25 October 1894 to 18 February 1898, and was promoted Leading Seaman on 1 July 1897. He transferred to the Coast Guard on 21 November 1899, and was awarded his Long Service and Good Conduct Medal on 25 October 1905. He saw further service during the great War, borne on the books of H.M.S. Vivid I throughout (and thus just entitled to the British War Medal), and was shore demobilised on 26 February 1919.

Sold with copied record of service and medal roll extracts.