Lieut. Ivor T. Evans, nephew of the Deputy Chief Constable of Carmarthenshire, and formerly a clerk in Lloyds Bank, Ammanford, who joined the South Wales Borderers, and was one of the first lot out, writes from France to his uncle : —
“I don’t suppose you will hear very much yet awhile, because everything is very quiet. I was in the trenches last week with 24 men from the company in charge of a battery of trench mortars . . . . We had rather a hot time. I am awfully bucked with myself. One of my fellows did a very plucky thing.
The Germans gave us a very hot time with the artillery and trench mortar bombs. One of these bombs dropped right in the centre of one of my sections, and would have killed a lot of people if it went off, but this fellow put the fuse out before it went off. I have mentioned him in despatches.”
In a further letter to his sister, Lieut. Evans stated that the name of the plucky man mentioned above was Newberry, and he came from Cardiff. He adds that his chum, Capt. Lewis, was killed on the 28th August, and another officer and one man were badly wounded. It was all due to an accident; a bomb blew them up.
