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Military service
Service number:
1951
Age:
36
Rank:
Second Lieutenant
Force:
Air Force
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Flying Corps
Division:
General List and Royal Flying Corps.
Birth:
July 26, 1880
London, England
Enlistment:
September 23, 1914
Valcartier, Québec
Death:
September 3, 1916
Burial/memorial information
Additional information
Son of Alice M. Evans of West Point Camberley, Surrey, England. Lieutenant Evans had previous with the Canadian Artillery, "C" Battery in the South African War. He stated that he was single and employed as a rancher. For a period of time,prior to the war, he was engaged in fruit farming in the Province of Ontario, then returned to ranching. He joined the Alberta Dragoons and went to France with the first contingent.
Additional citations
Distinguished Service Order awarded in September 1916 and mentioned in despatches in January 1917.
Digital gallery of Second Lieutenant Henry Cope Evans
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Newspaper clipping
From the Calgary Herald. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me -
Newspaper Clipping
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Newspaper clipping
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Biography
This casualty notice appeared in the June 7, 1917 issue of Flight, the journal of the Royal Aero Club of the United Kingdom. -
Newspaper Clipping
Notice of award of the Distinguished Service Order (DSO) in the Supplement to the London Gazette of September 22, 1916.
Digital gallery of
Second Lieutenant Henry Cope Evans
Digital gallery of
Second Lieutenant Henry Cope Evans
Digital gallery of
Second Lieutenant Henry Cope Evans
Digital gallery of
Second Lieutenant Henry Cope Evans
Digital gallery of
Second Lieutenant Henry Cope Evans
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Commemorated on:
Page 571 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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ARRAS FLYING SERVICES MEMORIAL Pas de Calais, France
The Arras Flying Services Memorial is in the Faubourg-d'Amiens Cemetery, which is in the Boulevard du General de Gaulle in the western part of the town of Arras, near the Citadel, approximately 2 kilometres due west of the railway station.
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