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In memory of:

Corporal James Kenneth Evans

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Korean War Monument

Citation(s);

Canadian Korea Medal
United Nations Service Medal (Korea)

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

UNITED NATIONS CEMETERY (BUSAN)
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.

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Korean War (1950 – 1953)

In the Books of Remembrance

Commemorated on:

Page 22 of the Korean War Book of Remembrance.
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UNITED NATIONS CEMETERY (BUSAN) South Korea

The United Nations Cemetery is located in Tanggok, a suburb of Busan. The land for the cemetery was granted to the United Nations by the Republic of Korea as a tribute to all those who had laid down their lives in combatting aggression and in upholding peace and freedom. There are 2,267 servicemen buried in the United Nations Memorial Cemetery. Of these 1,538 were Commonwealth soldiers, including 376 Canadians.

For more information, visit Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

 

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