Huthwaite WW One Memorial

De Lacy Campbell Evans

Private 36433 - 11th Battalion
East Yorkshire Regiment

Enlisted: Mansfield 28th February 1916

Killed in Action: France 3rd May 1917 : Aged 28

Arras Memorial Bay 4 and 5

Huthwaite Online WW1 Remembrance

Private 36433 De Lacy Campbell Evans was born Q1 1890 in Hucknall Huthwaite. Parents 1881 Q2 marriage between Harper Lane coal miner Mr Thomas Alfred Evans from Hanley Staffs, and Miss Ellen French Smith from Eckington Derbys, retains both family links in Hucknall Huthwaite locating their own 1891 home on Sutton Road by addressing Cemetery Place.

Family move into 15 Market Place is where father becomes Boot & Shoe Dealer, heading fuller 1901 household aged 44. Wife Mrs Ellen French Evans 43, extends her Grocery business still mothering and in turn largely employing Alfred John 19, Florence Ann 17, Sarah E 15, Henry Collinson 12, De Lacy Campbell 11, George F 9, Felicia Ellen 7, Dallas Eugenie 5, Olivia Mary 2. Shop also accommodates widowed mother-in-law Sarah Smith 65, plus niece Sarah A Smith 15, serving domestic duties.

Private 36433 De Lacy Campbell had continued working from home as Grocers Assistant until enlisted for military service 28th February 1916 at Mansfield. Medical declared age 26 years 48 days, measuring weight 131 lbs, height 5 feet 7½ and chest 35½ inches. Assigned into 11th East Yorkshire Regiment and deployed to France, Pte D C Evans went missing in action from 15th Platoon D Company 3th May 1917. Fathers correspondence eventually accepted presumed killed aged 28, to prove 1919 Will.

DeLacy Campbell Evans is additionally remembered on the Huthwaite Methodist Church members plaque. Huthwaite Cemetery found Evans family headstone mourning loss of two sons, where the cenotaph furthermore lists extended family members.

Mansfield Reporter and Sutton Times – 29th June 1917

The Vicar of Huthwaite reported that he had made personal enquiries through Red Cross and St. John's regarding Private D.C. Evans (Market Place), 36433, 11th. E. Yorks, missing since May 3rd. There had been no news and he had not been noted on prisoner lists searched.

Mansfield Reporter and Sutton Times – 19th Aug 1918

HUTHWAITE CASUALTIES. - PRIVATE T. H. EVANS.

  Private de Lacy Campbell Evans (cousin to the above) has been "missing" since May last, and is now presumed killed. He was the youngest son of Mr. and Mrs. T. A. Evans, Market-place, and was 28 years of age. ....

IN LOVING MEMORY OF

GEORGE FREDRICK,

BELOVED SON OF
THOMAS ALFRED & ELLEN EVANS,
DIED MAY 31st 1901
AGED 10 YEARS.

ALSO DE LACY CAMPBELL,
THEIR BELOVED SON
WHO WAS KILLED IN ACTION NEAR OPPY WOOD FRANCE,
MAY 3rd 1917, AGED 29 YEARS.

ALSO THOMAS ALFRED EVANS,
FATHER OF THE ABOVE
WHO DIED NOV. 26th 1921, AGED 65 YEARS.

ALSO ELLEN,
BELOVED WIFE OF
THOMAS ALFRED EVANS,
DIED NOV 15th 1943,
AGED 85 YEARS.