Gnr Charles Purvis of 14 Battery Pte Richard Evans of 1st/6th Bn
Royal Garrison Artillery Notts & Derby Regt
Richard Evans was the son of David and Hannah and brother to Alice, George, Florence and David. Richard was born in mid Wales in April 1890 and later moved to Chapel en le Frith where he would later meet and marry Annie Taylor and father two children Richard & Alice. Richard decided to join the Territorial Expeditionary Force in 1913 (The Chapel Territorials) in order to provide for his family. Richard after completing basic soldiering would see such places as Clumber Park (Nottinghamshire) and Hardwick Hall (Derbyshire) to further hone his soldiering skills of Trench Warfare and weaponry and at the outbreak of WW1 Richard and his fellow soldiers would then go down to Braintree in Essex to finalise training before leaving Southampton to Le Havre in France in 1915.
Below Richard is pictured with his brothers in arms the Soldiers of B Coy 1st/6th Battalion of The Notts & Derby Regt (Chapel & Hope Valley Territorials) which would later be known as The Sherwood Foresters.
Gnr Charles Purvis took a different path to Pte Richard Evans and he enlisted as soon as the outbreak of war occurred and was accepted into the Royal Garrison Artillery on the 18th August 1914. After training on Heavy Artillery in Lydd on the South Coast they headed for Woolwich where they collected the Battery together and made for Southampton and then onto Galipolli and the Dardenelles Campaign.
Excert from 14 Battery War Diary as they leave for Galipolli
Both soldiers are now in the theatre Europe & Turkey and the countdown to their war experience has begun.
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