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In memory of:

Corporal James Kenneth Evans

Military service

Service number: SF800384
Age: 23
Rank: Corporal
Force: Army
Unit/Regiment: The Royal Canadian Regiment
Division: 2nd Battalion
Birth: November 25, 1927 Halifax, Nova Scotia
Enlistment: January 9, 1944 Halifax, Nova Scotia
Death: October 23, 1951

Burial/memorial information

Grave reference: 20. 6. 1180
Additional information

Son of Sarah Unice Clarke (father deceased from WWI wounds). Brother of Freda (Mrs Kenneth Dawson) of Halifax, Nova Scotia and half sister Gloria Lenine Clarke.

Corporal Evans served in the Reserves from 1944 and was discharged in May 1945. He joined the Canadian Army in 1950.

Corporal Evans is commemorated on the Nova Scotia Korea War Memorial with his fellow Nova Scotians who lost their lives in the Korean War. The Memorial is located at Pleasant and Parade Streets in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia. It was unveiled and dedicated in a ceremony on 16 August 2003.

Commemorated on the Wall of Remembrance.

In the Books of Remembrance

Commemorated on:

Page 22 of the Korean War Book of Remembrance.
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