ROBERT EVERS

RANK: Boy 1st Class.

SERVICE NUMBER:

SERVICE: Royal Navy H.M.S. "Anchusa.".

BORN: Tadcaster.

ENLISTED: Leeds.

GAVE HIS LIFE: 16/07/1918.

AGED: 17.

CEMETERY: Plymouth Naval Memorial Devon.

PANEL : 27.

LEEDS MODERN: 1913-1915.

Son of the late Robert and Margaret Morley Evers.



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Robert was the son of Robert and Margaret Morley Hargraves who married in Tadcaster in 1894.

Robert left Leees Boys Modern aged 15 to enlist into the Navy, he was attached to the Devonport Division, and sent to the cruiser cambrian at Pembroke dock.

Robert served at Scapa Flow, and at the this time it was reported that he was a very keen sketch artist many of his pictures were reproduced in the ships magazine.

In early 1917 Robert suffered from Pneumonia and was sent to hospital. After leaving hospital Robert volunteered for service on a "Q" boat usedas a convoy ship, and Roberts boat was sunk on the 16th July 1918 by torpedoes from a German U boat.

Out of 100 men only 12 survived and Robert's body was never found.