Harry Evans (Australian footballer)

Hector William "Harry" Evans (4 September 1879 – 23 February 1949) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Carlton in the Victorian Football League (VFL).[1]

Harry Evans
Personal information
Full name Hector William Evans
Date of birth (1879-09-04)4 September 1879
Place of birth Shepparton, Victoria
Date of death 23 February 1949(1949-02-23) (aged 69)
Place of death Barnawartha, Victoria
Original team(s) Rutherglen, Excelsior
Playing career1
Years Club Games (Goals)
1899, 1901 Carlton 8 (2)
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1901.
Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com

Evans returned to the Ovens & Murray Football League in 1900[2] and played in Excelsior's 1900 premiership.

Family

The son of George Alexander Evans (1841-1887),[3] and Emma Lythgoe Evans (1848-1922), née Lasslett,[4] Hector William was born in Shepparton on 4 September 1879.[5]

Military service

He enlisted in the First AIF on 18 August 1914, and he served overseas in the 7th Australian Infantry Battalion. He sustained gunshot wounds to his left thigh and leg, on active service, that immediately required three operations; and, as well, he received treatment for the wounds' sequelae on several occasions post-war.

Although Evans had been allocated a block of land under the "Soldier Settlement Scheme", his service record shows that he surrendered the block in the second half of 1933.

Death

He died at Barnawartha, Victoria on 23 February 1949.[6][7]

Notes
  1. Holmesby, Russell; Main, Jim (2009). The Encyclopedia of AFL Footballers: every AFL/VFL player since 1897 (8th ed.). Seaford, Victoria: BAS Publishing. p. 249. ISBN 978-1-921496-00-4.
  2. "1900 - Football". Ovens and Murray Advertiser (Beechworth, Vic). 19 May 1900. p. 3. Retrieved 4 September 2021.
  3. Deaths: Evans, The Australasian, (Saturday, 12 November 1887), p.3.
  4. Marriages: Evans—Lasslett, The Argus, (Thursday, 4 July 1867), p.4.
  5. Births: Evans, The Australasian, (Saturday, 20 September 1879), p.27.
  6. Deaths: Evans, The Age, (Wednesday, 2 March 1949), p.2.
  7. Details of the coroner's report on his (non-suspicious) death are on his War Service record.

References
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