Private David Evans, 17551, from Landore, Swansea, joined the 14th Battalion Welsh Regiment, Swansea Pals, and was posted to France in December 1915 as a stretcher bearer. Later in the war he was transferred to the 15th Battalion, Carmarthen Pals. It was during a trench raid on the 11th March 1918 in Houplines near Armentieres that he and another six men were killed. They are buried in the Cite Bonjean Cemetery in Armentieres.