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Private ELLIS HUMPHREY EVANS

Service Number: 61117
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Welsh Fusiliers

15th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 31 July 1917

Age 30 years old

Buried or commemorated at

ARTILLERY WOOD CEMETERY

II. F. 11.

Belgium

Poets connected with the 1st World War: headstone of Private E H Evans in Artillery Wood Cemetery, Belgium

Photographer: Unknown

  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Evan and Mary Evans, of Trawsfynydd, Merioneth. One of the war poets, who wrote poetry under the name 'Hedd Wyn'.
  • Personal Inscription Y PRIFARDD HEDD WYN
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Buried or commemorated at

ARTILLERY WOOD CEMETERY
West-Vlaanderen Belgium
Number of casualties: 1307
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