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31 August 1916 : Pte Evan Oliver Robert May

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Evan May was born in 1880 in Northleach, Gloucestershire, the son of Robert (a farm labourer) and Olive May.  At the 1881 Census Evan was the youngest of four children, the oldest two, age 15 and 12 were working in turn as a domestic servant and a ploughboy.  By the 1891 Census the older children had left home. Evan, not yet 11, was the middle s...