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Lieutenant
Harold Lloyd Evans
1920 - Born Llanelly, Carmarthenshire
Son of William Samuel Gimblett and Jane (nee Lloyd) Evans
Of 5, North Terrace, Dafen, Llanelly Rural, Carmarthenshire, Wales
Brother to sister Margery (b. 1918)
1942 - Married Henrietta McCree, of Fallings Park, Wolverhampton
Royal Welch Fusiliers
Attached - Headquarters 2 (West Africa) Infantry Brigade, R.W.A.F.F.
2nd West African Brigade HQ
15th March 1945
After a week of heavy fighting the unit attempted to take the road to Taungup, the officer writing the diary is pleased to note that despite, “The Japanese still sitting on our doorstep, 15 ‘grocery’ planes delivered the goods and we had excellent bread for the first time for three weeks”.
Casualties in the brigade’s field hospital were around 200 though, he noted, a sign of the toll that the near constant fighting in early March had taken.
So intense was the fighting that not even the Brigade’s senior officers within their headquarters were any safer than their troops.
The diary records how, on the 15th March 1945, the HQ was hit by Japanese shelling, killing three men and injuring the Commanding Officer Brigadier E Western, who had to be relieved of his duties.
Died
Age 25
15th March 1945
Killed in Action Burma
Loved Ones
Husband of Henrietta Evans , of Wednesfield, Staffordshire
Memorial
Face 9.
Rangoon Memorial
Burma
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Burma Star
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War Medal
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1939-1945 Star
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Information
Kew Files:- WO 304/11, WO417/008
The Forgotten Army:- West African Troops in Burma, 1945
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