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Service No.
Rank
Service
Date of Birth
Place of Birth
Date of Enlistment
Place of Enlistment
Date of Death
Age
Cemetery/Memorial
Grave Reference
Source:
Veterans Affairs Canada
James Kenneth Evans
SF800384
Corporal
2nd Battalion, Royal Canadian Regiment
November 25, 1927
Halifax, Nova Scotia
January 9, 1944
Halifax, Nova Scotia
October 23, 1951
23
United Nations Cemetery (Busan), South Korea
Plot 20. Row 6. Grave 1180
Commemorated on Page 22 of the Korean War Book of Remembrance.
Corporal Evans was the son of Sarah Unice Clarke. His father had died of wounds received during WWI.
Corporal Evans served in the Reserves from 1944 and was discharged in May 1945. He joined the
Canadian Army in 1950 and served in Korea.
He was killed in action in October 1951 during a patrol with D Coy, 2 RCR when they were fired upon
by the enemy with Light Machine Gun fire.
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