Corporal Edward Evans, B company, 1/4 th Battalion Welsh Regiment. Mediterranean Expeditionary Force, writing home to his brother, sister and niece at Ammanford, on the 13 th August, from the 2 nd Australian Stationary Hospital, says : -
"Sorry I didn't have time to write to you before, as after we landed last Monday morning we were preparing for breakfast and the enemy started shelling us, so that they spoiled our meal, and we had to go further on.
We were ordered to take off our valises and straps and put off to the fighting area. On Tuesday we were put in the firing line, and I got wounded, a bullet passing through the top of my left shoulders and out a little lower down, as we were going for a bayonet charge. I believe we have suffered heavy losses between the killed and wounded.
I have heard now that Dai is killed, and our Company Sergeant-Major (Meredith Williams), from Carmarthen, you know, and Tom Hughes (chemist), Harold Jones and Twist are here in the hospital, as well as hundreds of other."
