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From the Commonwealth Graves Commission
Name: EVANS, WILLIAM DAVID
Initials: W D
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Private
Regiment/Service: South Wales Borderers
Unit Text: 1st Bn.
Date of Death: 25/07/1916
Service No: 33612
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: Pier and Face 4 A.
Memorial: THIEPVAL MEMORIAL

SDGW Info:

Name: William David Evans
Birth Place: Llechyrd, Cardigan
Death Date: 25 Jul 1916
Death Location: France & Flanders
Enlistment Location: Cardigan
Rank: Private
Regiment: South Wales Borderers
Battalion: 1st Battalion
Number: 33612
Type of Casualty: Killed in action
Theatre of War: Western European Theatre

Best Match from 1901 census.
1901 Census records him, 10 years old [b. 1891, Llechryd, Cardiganshire] living with his parents Benjamin [b.1853, Llandugwydd, Cardiganshire] and Anne [b. 1860, Eilgerran, Pembrokeshire] and his younger sister, Mary [b. 1893, Llechryd, Cardiganshire]. The address of the home is the Tivy Side Inn, his father being recorded as the inn-keeper. The premises survived until 1934 when it was demolished although it had not been a public house since 1930, having been closed under the auspices of the 1910 Licensing (Consolidation) Act, a re-hash of the Licensing Act 1904. Compensation was paid to the owner of the premises and the licensee for the removal of the license and the closure of the premises.
Below is an overlay of a 1906 map onto a Google Earth screen-shot of the location of the premises with two turn of the century photographs of the premises one showing a stage-coach the other show the premises view from across the river Tivy. Click on the picture for a large version.

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His wikipedia entry: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidney_Sonnino

Thanks so much for your research pennylrichardsca. We'll fill in the name the next time we update the record.

More of a "bonfire day" than a "bonfire night". I hope they all stood further upwind or those heavy dresses and shawls would reek of smoke when they went back inside the house.

mmm, I love that smell. I miss it. I used to complain about it, until my mother said that smoke follows beauty :)

Hi, Thanks for your comments! I agree that it looks really strange that they stood so close to the fire in this image, especially as there were children and animals within reach of the smoke and flames as well! Health and safety was certainly not as much of a priority in 1853!!