1999

Lieutenant Gareth John Maurice Evans

Countries: Serbia

War dead, Other war i

Commemorated on a memorial as having died in a war, not WW1 or WW2.

From 69 Gurkha Field Squadron, 36 Royal Engineers, killed, aged 25, while trying to clear mines and booby traps from a school in Negrovce, 20 miles west of Pristina, Kosovo. Two civilians were killed in the blast and a third injured.

Gareth John Maurice Evans was born on 22 February 1974 and our Picture Source gives much information about him.

His body was buried in Row 5 Grave 1834, in the Fort Pitt Military Cemetery, City Way, Rochester, Kent.

He is also commemorated on the Armed Forces Memorial at the National Memorial Arboretum, Croxall Road, Alrewas, Burton-on-Trent, Staffordshire and his name is also recorded in their Roll of Honour.

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