“EVANS, HERBERT CLYDE, B.A., LL.B., Barrister-at-Law, Lieut.-Commander, Nelson Battn Royal Naval Division, yst. s. of the late John Thomas Evans, of Gisborne, New Zealand, shipowner, by his wife, Emma; b. Oamaru, N.Z., 26 April, 1883; educ. Gisborne (N.Z.) High School; and was apprenticed in one of his father's ships, and served eight years in the mercantile service. He was first officer in a ship in the service of the Russians during the Russo-Japanese War, and was at the fall of Port Arthur; he was wrecked near Siberia, where his eyesight was so injured by the frost that he had to relinquish the sea. He then entered St. John's College, Cambridge, taking a second-class B.A. and second-class LL.B., and was called to the Bar at the Inner Temple, June, 1914. On the outbreak of war he was appointed lecturer to officers by the Admiralty, and given a commission as Lieut.-Commander in the Royal Naval Division, 1 Oct. 1914. He left for the Dardanelles on 3 March, and was killed in action there, near Achi Baba, 5 June, 1915. Lieut.-Com. Evans was mentioned in Sir Ian Hamilton's Despatches [London Gazette, 5 Nov. 1915], for gallant and distinguished service in the field. He m. at Fairwarp Church, Sussex, 25 March, 1913, Constance (Clevedon, Newick, Sussex), dau. of the Rev. George Wehlpton Johnson, Vicar of Fairwarp, and had two daus.: Constance Joy Nelson, b. 7 Aug. 1914; and Grace Nina Clyde, b. posthumous, 9 Aug. 1915.” [De Ruvigny’s Roll of Honour, 1914-1919, Volume 1]
“KILLED AT THE DARDANELLES – A private cable was received last evening by Mrs J. T. Evans stating that her youngest son, Herbert Clyde, had been killed in the Dardanelles. It will be remembered by many of the boys in Gisborne that Clyde Evans took on the sea as a profession, and after several years’ service, went to Cambridge University, where 18 months ago he took his B.A., and L.L.B., and became a barrister at the Inner Temple and the Inns of Court, London. When war broke out, he enlisted with many others from the Inner Temple, and was attached to the Second Nelson Battalion, and was gazetted a commanding lieutenant of the Royal Navy. Lieut. Evans received his primary education at the Gisborne High School, under Mr E. H. Mann, and left Gisborne about 11 years ago. He had a most adventurous career. He was on the three-masted topsail schooner Ururoa when that vessel went ashore on the Waikanae beach several years ago. He afterwards joined the P. and 0. Company, sailing to the East, and was quartermaster on the Formosa, when that vessel was captured by the Russians in the Red Sea during the Russo-Japanese war. With some other adventurous spirits, he saw exciting times running the blockade into Vladivostock during the investment of that town by the Japanese fleet. Lieut. Evans was extremely popular here, and the news of bis death will come as a sad blow to his old schoolmates in Gisborne.” [Gisborne Times, Volume XXXIX, Issue 3954, 12 June 1915, Page 5]
