Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Lieutenant L. P. Evans, 1st/6th (Swansea) Battalion, Welsh Regiment and Royal Field Artillery, later Company Officer, Royal Military College, Sandhurst, and Army Educational Corps

1914 Star (2. Lieut. L. P. Evans. Welsh R.); British War and Victory Medals (Lieut. L. P. Evans) mounted court style as worn, contact marks, nearly very fine (3) £180-£220

Levi Prosser Evans, known as Thomas Evans, was born at Aberdare on 31 September 1892, the son of the Revd. Thomas C. Evans and his wife Eleanor, and was educated at Llandovery College and Keble College, Oxford. He was commissioned Second Lieutenant from the Oxford University Contingent, O.T.C., into the 6th (Swansea) Battalion, Welsh Regiment on 20 September 1914, and served with them during the Great War on the Western Front from 29 October 1914 to July 1915; however, as his battalion was engaged on Lines of Communications duties he did not qualify for the clasp to the 1914 Star. He transferred to the Royal Field Artillery on 22 July 1915, and served with the Egyptian Expeditionary Force from March to April 1916 and again from July 1917 to April 1918; in Greek Macedonia, Serbia, Bulgaria, European Turkey, and the islands of the Aegean Sea from April 1916 to July 1917; and on the Western Front from May to 13 July 1918. He was appointed Adjutant, with the rank of Acting Captain, in 1919.

Following the Great War Evans was appointed to a permanent Commission in the Army Educational Corps as Lieutenant on 24 December 1920, and the following year was appointed a Company Officer, commanding a Company of Gentleman Cadets, at the Royal Military College, Sandhurst on 30 August 1921. He relinquished his commission on 31 August 1927, and was later the headmaster of the Holyrood Preparatory School, Bognor Regis, Sussex. During the Second World War the school was requisitioned and was re-located to Lluest, Llanbadarn Fawr, Aberystwyth. He was well known in Bognor Regis and was Chairman of the Board of Management of the Bognor Regis War Memorial Hospital; he later retired to Cardiganshire, becoming a magistrate there in 1950.

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