HUGH EDWARD EVANS

Preifat 81737 Cartrawd Brenhinol Meddygol y Fyddin (RAMC)

Mab i Griffith a Mary Jane Evans Glan Eiddion Rhyd y Main.

Cyn ymuno a'r fyddin yr oedd yn fyfyriwr ar ei flwyddyn olaf yn y Coleg Normal Bangor.

Ymunodd a'r cartrawd arbennig o'r RAMC a ffurfwyd ym mis Chwefror 1916 fel modd i fyfyrwyr Cristionogl Cymru chwarau eu rhan yn ymgyrch y rhyfel heb iddynt gorfod codi arfau. Cafodd ei hyfforddiant sylfaenol mewn meddygaeth mewn ysbytai yn Shefield cyn cael ei ddanfon i facadonia.

Bu farw o falaria ar Hydref 10ed, 1917 yn 23 mlwydd oed. Fe'i gladdwyd yn y fynwent milwrol yn Salonica.

Mae cofiant iddo gan ei gyfaill David Ellis yn "Y Seren" 29 Rhasgfyr 1917.

Private 8137 Royal Army Medical Corps

The son of Griffith and Mary Jane Evans, Glan Eiddion Rhyd y Main.

Before joining the army he was a stdent in his final year of training at Bangor Normal (teacher's training) Collage.

I joined a special battalion of the RAMC which was formed in February 1916 as a means for welsh Christian Students to take part in the war effort without haveing to bare arms. He was given basic medical training in Sheffield Hospitals before being posted to a field hospital in Macedonia.

He died of Malaria on October 10th, 1917 aged 23, and was buried in the Military Cemetery at Salonica.

An obituary by his friend David Ellis appears in the paper "Y Seren" published on December 29th, 1917