COMMEMORATED IN PERPETUITY BY THE

Commonwealth War Graves Commission

George Evezard joined the 1st Battalion, Royal Warwickshire Regiment. He was appointed 2nd Lieutenant on 12th May 1915, and rose to Lieutenant on 10th June 1916. On 3rd July 1916 Captain Evezard was first listed as "Wounded" on the Casualty List issued by the War Office. 1st Battalion, Royal Warwickshire’s were part of 10th Infantry Brigade, 4th Division.

3rd May 1917 - Battles Of Arras - Third Battle Of The Scarpe

Location: Roeux Chemical Works. 4th Division in XVII Corps, Third Army were east of Fampoux, attacking towards Roeux. 10th Infantry Brigade and 11th Infantry Brigade began attacking on 3rd May, some progress was made towards Roeux and the Chemical Works north of the village, but held up with heavy losses to the attacking battalions. 4th Division finally captured Roeux village and Chemical Works in an attack by the 10th and 11th Infantry Brigades during the evening of 10th May, handing it over to 51st Division who held it against strong counter-attacks on 13th May. During these attacks, on the 9th May, George was wounded by a shell in the lower spine. He was taken to the 42nd casualty clearing station Nr Arras where unfortunately, he died of his wounds. George lies buried at the Aubigny Communal Cemetery Extension, Nord Pas de Calais.

From March 1916 to the Armistice, Aubigny was held by Commonwealth troops and burials were made in the Extension until September 1918. The 42nd Casualty Clearing Station buried in it during the whole period, the 30th in 1916 and 1917, the 24th and 1st Canadian in 1917 (during the capture of Vimy Ridge by the Canadian Corps) and the 57th in 1918. The Extension now contains 2,771 Commonwealth burials of the First World War and seven from the Second World War.

George was born on 24th July 1893 in India to an Indian Father and English Mother. George’s Father Julian D’Arcy Evezard was a Commercial Traveller in the sugar trade. George’s Mother Alice Martha Martin was born in Wantage, Berks. Alice was Julian’s 2nd wife, George had two half siblings from his father’s first marriage. In 1911, when George was 17, he was a boarder at King Alfred's Grammar School in Wantage. George’s parents lived at Stone Cottage, Steventon between 1909 and 1919.