George Harold Evans
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Født
Foreldre
Kjønn
Nasjonalitet
CanadaFødested
Relasjon til fylke
Flåtetilhørighet
Har stillinger
Sjøforklaring 1940 - 1945
Annet
- Deltok i 2. verdenskrig
Evans med sin uniformCopyright: Arkivet freds- og menneskerettighetssenter/privat
Ex gratia-arkivet:
Registernummer under krigen: London 63606.
I kravskjema står det oppført at Evans var på ERVIKEN ved torpedering. Men dette er feil og skal være EINVIK.
I London-kort er oppført fødselsår 1924, men dette er feil og skal være 1926.
Privat arkiv:
"In his youth, George was a proud member of the Sea Cadets, a branch of the Church Lad's brigade. On leaving school, George worked with his father in the inshore fishery. Motoring in to the harbour of St. John's from the fishing banks he was in awe of the big ships moored there; this was the excitement of his life, he dreamed of someday working on one of those ships and seeing the world.
The big opportunity presented itself in August, 1941 as George and his father sold their fresh fish to the SS EINVIK, a Norwegian ship preparing to cross the North Atlantic in convoy to England. At the young age og fifteen, George signed on as cabin boy and twelve days later he got more excitement than he bargained for. The straggling EINVIK was torpedoed by a German U-boat 450 miles of the Iceland coast. After eight days of sailing the North Atlantic in a life boat, George recovered at the Westmann Islands Hospital and continued on to England to join the Royal Merchant Navy manning pool. [...]
From the British manning pool George signed on as a trimmer, fireman and gunner on various merchant ships carrying war supplies and weapons in convoys travelling through waters infested with German attack formations. George signed on for two major convoys to North Russia and also plied tbe waters of the Atlantic, English Channel and Coast, Middle East and the Indian Ocean. [...]
At war's end and after four years at sea, George retired at the age of nineteen to build a life on land. Discharged May, 1945 from the Merchant Navy he was employed by the Royal Canadian Navy in St. John's as a civilian guard. During this time, George met the girl who became his wife, Mary E Benson, and with her able assistance and with the favourable record of wartime service, he was accepted into the Canadian Customs Service at Corner Brook in July, 1948. George served with the Custom Services until his retirement in 1984."
Kilder
RA/S-3545/G/Gg
Privat arkiv avgitt til Arkivet freds- og menneskerettighetssenter
