Lieutenant-General Sir Geoffrey Charles Evans KBE CB DSO** (born 1901; died 1987) was an officer in the British Army during World War II and the post-war era.In January 1942 whilst commanding 1st battalion The Royal Sussex Regiment, part of Indian 4th Infantry Division's 7 Indian Infantry Brigade, in the Western Desert Campaign Evans skilfully led Silver Group (his battalion expanded with the addition of armoured reconnaissance and artillery units) during 7 Brigade's successful breakout from Benghazi.

PropertyValue
dbpedia-owl:allegiance
dbpedia-owl:award
dbpedia-owl:battles
dbpedia-owl:branch
dbpedia-owl:commands
dbpedia-owl:occupation
dbpedia-owl:rank
p:abstract
  • Lieutenant-General Sir Geoffrey Charles Evans KBE CB DSO** (born 1901; died 1987) was an officer in the British Army during World War II and the post-war era.In January 1942 whilst commanding 1st battalion The Royal Sussex Regiment, part of Indian 4th Infantry Division's 7 Indian Infantry Brigade, in the Western Desert Campaign Evans skilfully led Silver Group (his battalion expanded with the addition of armoured reconnaissance and artillery units) during 7 Brigade's successful breakout from Benghazi. During World War II he had the very unusual distinction of being awarded the DSO and two Bars. (en)
p:accessdate
  • 2007-11-27 (xsd:date)
p:allegiance
p:awards
p:battles
p:branch
p:commands
  • 1st Royal Sussex Regiment,
    Indian 7th Infantry Division (1944 to 1945)
    Allied Land Forces in Siam (1945 to 1946)
    British 42nd Division (1947 to 1948)
    40th Division (1949 to 1951)
    General Officer Commanding Hong Kong (1951 to 1952)
    Northern Command (1953 to 1957) (en)
p:date
  • 1921-01-25 (xsd:date)
p:hasPhotoCollection
p:issue
  • 32207 (xsd:integer)
p:laterwork
p:lived
  • 1901 - 1987 (en)
p:name
  • Geoffrey Charles Evans (en)
p:rank
p:serviceyears
  • 1921 - 1957 (en)
p:startpage
  • 764 (xsd:integer)
p:supp
  • yes (en)
p:wikiPageUsesTemplate
p:wordnet_type
rdf:type
rdfs:comment
  • Lieutenant-General Sir Geoffrey Charles Evans KBE CB DSO** (born 1901; died 1987) was an officer in the British Army during World War II and the post-war era.In January 1942 whilst commanding 1st battalion The Royal Sussex Regiment, part of Indian 4th Infantry Division's 7 Indian Infantry Brigade, in the Western Desert Campaign Evans skilfully led Silver Group (his battalion expanded with the addition of armoured reconnaissance and artillery units) during 7 Brigade's successful breakout from Benghazi. (en)
rdfs:label
  • Geoffrey Charles Evans (en)
owl:sameAs
skos:subject
foaf:name
  • Geoffrey Charles Evans
foaf:page
is p:notableCommanders of
is owl:sameAs of