Samuel Evans

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Cleveland Ironworks, Duke Street, Heath Park, Hohenzollern Redoubt, Midland Counties Express, Penn Court, Saffron Walden, Samuel Evans, South Staffordshire Regiment

Samuel Evans was born in about 1894, the son of Samuel and Sarah Jane Evans. In 1901 they were living at 44 Duke Street together with Samuel’s brother Charlie and sisters Elizabeth and Maud. Samuel’s father, Samuel, died later the same year, and his mother remarried a Charles Weaver in 1909. Samuel worked as a fireman at the Cleveland Ironworks. He trained as a Territorial at Penn Court and Saffron Walden.

Samuel enlisted in the 6th Battalion of the South Staffordshire Regiment (number 2652) when war broke out in 1914, and went abroad in March 1915. He was wounded in “one of the fierce fights with the Germans” on 13 October 1915, in the attack on the Hohenzollern Redoubt. He died from his injuries on 20 October. He was featured (with two different photographs) in the Midland Counties Express on 11 December 1915 and again on 6 January 1917. The Midland Counties Express dated 13 January 1917 states that the previous tribute included the photograph of another soldier with the same surname by mistake, for which the newspaper apologises. Samuel is honoured at the Lillers Communal Cemetery, as well as on the Heath Park memorial. He is featured on the “Black Country Territorials” site. The is