Orders, Decorations and Medals

Five: Lieutenant-Colonel A. N. Evers, Corps of Military Accountants, late King’s Own Yorkshire Light Infantry

British War and Victory Medals (2 Lieut.); 1939-45 Star; Africa Star; War Medal 1939-45, these unnamed, very fine and better (5) £80-100

Alfred Noel Evers, born Holbeck, Yorkshire 22 December 1890. Commissioned 2nd Lieutenant, K.O.Y.L.I., 7 October 1915, to France, 12 July 1916. Served in France and Belgium and was wounded. Promoted to Lieutenant, 1 July 1917, appointed Captain in the Corps of Military Accountants, 19 November 1919; Captain and Paymaster, 10 December 1925; Major and Paymaster, 7 October 1935; and Lieutenant-Colonel and Staff Paymaster 1st Class in 1942. His post Great War home address was ‘Clareville, Kenilworth Avenue, Harrogate’. In 1953 he immigrated to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, immediately prior to which he was living at ‘Orchard View, Ebford, near Exeter’. With some copied research including a photocopied Brazilian immigration card bearing his photograph.