{"id":5921,"date":"2021-10-12T11:50:00","date_gmt":"2021-10-12T11:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.overloonwarchronicles.nl\/?page_id=5921"},"modified":"2024-02-24T16:37:07","modified_gmt":"2024-02-24T16:37:07","slug":"evans-godfrey","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.overloonwarchronicles.nl\/en\/evans-godfrey\/","title":{"rendered":"Evans Godfrey"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Evans | Godfrey<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<h3>First names<\/h3>\n<div>\n<p>Henry Godfrey<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h3>Age<\/h3>\n<div>\n<p>21<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h3>Date of birth<\/h3>\n<div>\n<p>28-1-1923<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h3>Date of death<\/h3>\n<div>\n<p>27-09-1944<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h3>Service number<\/h3>\n<div>\n<p>142007931<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h3>Rank<\/h3>\n<div>\n<p>Lance Corporal<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h3>Regiment<\/h3>\n<div>\n<p>King&#8217;s Shropshire Light Infantry, 4th Bn.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h3>Grave number<\/h3>\n<div>\n<p>IV. B. 13.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p>        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/evans-godfrey-portret.jpg\" alt=\"Henry Godfrey Evans\"><\/p>\n<h3>Henry Godfrey Evans<\/h3>\n<p>Henry Godfrey Evans<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Foto-19.jpg\" alt=\"Grave Henry Godfrey Evans\"><\/p>\n<h3>grave  henry godfrey evans<\/h3>\n<p>Grave Godfrey Evans war cemetery Overloon.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div>\n<p>Author: Arno van Dijk<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h2>Faces to graves<\/h2>\n<div>\n<p>The Commonwealth War Graves Commission cemetery in Overloon, popularly known as the English cemetery, contains 281 graves. Each with its own story. In this report series, the Overloon War Chronicles Foundation highlights one such special story each time. This time grave number 13, section IV, row B. of\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Godfrey Evans (1923-1944)<\/strong><br \/><em>The coincidence factor<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h2>Biography<\/h2>\n<div>\n<p><em>&#8220;Incidents like this makes one understand what we are fighting for.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>(Source: quote from Godfrey Evans\u2019 letter to his parents and sisters)<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>Just waiting. Waiting for the Americans, the Lucky 7th, who are on their way from France to this village in The Netherlands to roll up that bridgehead in Venlo. And then they can finally enter Germany! <br \/>This morning\u2019s small attack action takes place just a couple of miles away from here, so they all can hear the noise in this village. But in the village itself nothing\u2019s happening on this 27th of September 1944, everybody hopes it stays that way.<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>Henry Godfrey Evans is born on Sunday 28 January 1923, in Swansea in Wales. He is the son of Leonard Evans (1892), originally from Hull (but his father was also from South Wales) and Gladys Beatrice Evans, maiden name Probert (1889). The family also consists of 2 daughters: Godfrey&#8217;s older sister Barbara is born on 21 June 1915 and his younger sister Marie is born on 18 March 1926.<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>Economically the 1920s and 1930s are bad years in Wales. While Wales was still an important supplier of copper, iron and coal to British industry in the period from the Industrial Revolution to the First World War, after the First World War Wales fell into a depression. The general economic downturn started in the industry and therefore fewer raw materials were \u00a0needed. In addition, of the 273,000 men who left Wales for the front in France and Belgium in the First World War, 35,000 never returned. And because many Welsh unemployed people subsequently left the country in search of work elsewhere, the total Welsh population is still shrinking in the 1920s and 1930s. This depression will last until the Second World War. Nevertheless, at the same time Swansea remains an important industrial area.<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>The Evans family is a close family with a comfortable social life. They live in Glanbrydan Avenue in Swansea, near the beautiful coast and the children often go camping with groups of friends. Father Leonard is an insurance company manager. In the First World War he was a Captain in the army. Gladys is a skilled housewife. The children attend a private school and have a happy carefree childhood.<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>Godfrey starts a job at the Tinplate Conference, a producer of tin plates, in the period before the war. In his spare time he plays the piano and he does that quite well. In addition, he likes sports. He plays football, hockey, tennis and rugby. That also gives him a lot of stamina and a great physical condition which he can use well later on, in the army.<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>Because his carefree life changes radically when the Second World War breaks out. Then, as in all major cities in the United Kingdom, larger air raid shelters have already been built in Swansea. And across the country, private individuals are setting up their own Anderson shelter in their gardens, which is half buried underground with a thick layer of soil on top to provide safety for the family. In the period 27 June 1940 \u2013 16 February 1943 the Luftwaffe carries out various air raids on Swansea, a strategically important city because of the harbor, the docks and a nearby large oil refinery. The Germans want to stop the production and the supply of coal, among other things. The most violent air raids on the city follow 3 days in a row on 19, 20 and 21 February 1941, the Swansea Blitz. Much of the city is destroyed. 230 people are killed and 409 injured. 7000 people lose their homes and belongings.<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>Godfrey is already active in the Home Guard, to be precise in the 12th Battalion Glamorgan Home Guard. His father Leonard was Captain in the British Army during the First World War and is now Captain in the Home Guard, No. 8 Company, 12th Battalion, Swansea. Barbara is the company orderly clerk for her father&#8217;s Home Guard battalion.<\/p>\n<p>You can read how it continues in the full version of &#8220;Faces from the Past&#8221; below.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Article-05-Godfrey-Evans-English-translated-version.pdf\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Godfrey-Evans.gif\" alt=\"Godfrey Evans\"><\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Photos<\/h2>\n<div>\n<p>De foto\u2019s van Godfrey Evans bereikten ons via Julie Smith, de dochter van Godfreys zus Marie, en Anna Sandbach, dochter van zus Barbara. Naast de foto\u2019s ontving de stichting via Julie en Anna meer dan 50 brieven die Godfrey schreef aan zijn ouders en zussen vanaf begin 1944 (de startfase van zijn training) tot 22 september 1944, 5 dagen voor zijn dood op 27 september 1944. De inhoud van zijn brieven heeft als basis gediend voor dit dossier.<br \/>De stichting dankt ook Bob Rabone die op verzoek van de familie alle brieven en foto\u2019s heeft gedigitaliseerd.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p>        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Foto-01.jpg\" alt=\"Godfrey Evans in uniform during leave, 1944.\u00a0\"><\/p>\n<h3>Godfrey Evans in uniform during leave<\/h3>\n<p>Godfrey Evans in uniform tijdens een verlof, 1944.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\"><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0Ph<\/span><\/span><i>oto: Collection Anna Sandbach<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Foto-02.jpg\" alt=\"Godfrey Evans with his sisters Barbara en Marie\"><\/p>\n<h3>Godfrey Evans with his sisters Barbara en Marie<\/h3>\n<p>Godfrey Evans with his sisters Barbara en Marie<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"p1\"><i>Photo: Collection Julie Smith<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Foto-03.jpg\" alt=\"Henry Godfrey Evans\u00a0\"><\/p>\n<h3>Henry Godfrey Evans<\/h3>\n<p>Henry Godfrey Evans\u00a0<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"p1\"><i>Photo: Collection Julie Smith<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Foto-04.jpg\" alt=\"Henry Godfrey Evans\u00a0\"><\/p>\n<h3>Henry Godfrey Evans\u00a0<\/h3>\n<p>Henry Godfrey Evans\u00a0<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"p1\"><i>Photo: Collection Anna Sandbach<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Foto-05.jpg\" alt=\"Henry Godfrey Evans\u00a0\"><\/p>\n<h3>Henry Godfrey Evans\u00a0<\/h3>\n<p>Henry Godfrey Evans\u00a0<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"p1\"><i>Photo: Collection Anna Sandbach<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Foto-06.jpg\" alt=\"Godfrey in his childhood years, early 1930s\"><\/p>\n<h3>Godfrey in his childhood years, early 1930s<\/h3>\n<p>Godfrey in his childhood years, early 1930s<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"p1\"><i>Photo: Collection Anna Sandbach<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Foto-07.jpg\" alt=\"Marie, Barbara and Godfrey during a sea side visit, early 1930s\"><\/p>\n<h3>Marie, Barbara and Godfrey during a sea side visit, early 1930s<\/h3>\n<p>Marie, Barbara and Godfrey during a sea side visit, early 1930s<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"p1\"><i>Photo: Collection Anna Sandbach<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Foto-08.jpg\" alt=\"Leonard, Godfrey, Marie, Gladys, Barbara, Glynn and guests\"><\/p>\n<h3>Leonard, Godfrey, Marie, Gladys, Barbara, Glynn and guests<\/h3>\n<p>Leonard, Godfrey, Marie, Gladys, Barbara, Glynn and guests<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"p1\"><i>Photo: Collection Anna Sandbach<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Foto-09.jpg\" alt=\"Leonard Evans in his Captain uniform\"><\/p>\n<h3>Leonard Evans in his Captain uniform<\/h3>\n<p>Leonard Evans in his Captain uniform<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"p1\"><i>Photo: Collection Anna Sandbach<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Foto-10.jpg\" alt=\"The British forces of 4KSLI arrive in Sint Anthonis\"><\/p>\n<h3>The British forces of 4KSLI arrive in Sint Anthonis<\/h3>\n<p>The British forces of 4KSLI arrive in Sint Anthonis<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 19\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n<p><em>Photo: still from the Charles Manders\u2019 movie, Sint Anthonis 1944. Collection Piet Peters<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Foto-11.jpg\" alt=\"British forces of 4KSLI during their arrival in Sint Anthonis\"><\/p>\n<h3>British forces of 4KSLI during their arrival in Sint Anthonis<\/h3>\n<p>British forces of 4KSLI during their arrival in Sint Anthonis<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"p1\"><i>Photo: still uit film Charles Manders, Sint Anthonis 1944. Collection Piet Peters, Overloon<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Foto-12.jpg\" alt=\"map  St Anthonis\"><\/p>\n<h3>map  St Anthonis<\/h3>\n<p>map  St Anthonis<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><em>Map: Collection Piet Peters, Overloon<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Foto-13.jpg\" alt=\"The orchard of Frans van Sambeek in Sint Anthonis \"><\/p>\n<h3>The orchard of Frans van Sambeek in Sint Anthonis <\/h3>\n<p>The orchard of Frans van Sambeek in Sint Anthonis <\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"p1\"><i>Photo: Collection Anna Sandbach<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Foto-14.jpg\" alt=\"Sint Anthonis during war\"><\/p>\n<h3>Sint Anthonis during war<\/h3>\n<p>Sint Anthonis during war<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><em>Photo: Collection Frans van Sambeek<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Foto-15.jpg\" alt=\"Gerarda Janssen van de Voort\"><\/p>\n<h3>Gerarda Janssen van de Voort<\/h3>\n<p>Gerarda Janssen van de Voort<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Photo: Collection Anna Sandbach<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Foto-16.jpg\" alt=\"The grave of Godfrey Evans in the CWGC cemetery in Overloon, 1947\"><\/p>\n<h3>The grave of Godfrey Evans in the CWGC cemetery in Overloon, 1947<\/h3>\n<p>TThe grave of Godfrey Evans in the CWGC cemetery in Overloon, 1947<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Photo: Collection Leo Janssen<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Foto-17.jpg\" alt=\"Barbara and Glynn and the grave of Godfrey Evans 1948\"><\/p>\n<h3>Barbara and Glynn and the grave of Godfrey Evans 1948<\/h3>\n<p>Barbara and Glynn and the grave of Godfrey Evans 1948<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Photo: Collection Anna Sandbach<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Foto-18.jpg\" alt=\"Barbara and her brother's grave, September 1948\"><\/p>\n<h3>Barbara and her brother&#8217;s grave, September 1948<\/h3>\n<p>Barbara and her brother&#8217;s grave, September 1948<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"p1\"><i>Photo: Collection Anna Sandbach<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Sources and credits<\/h2>\n<div>\n<p>Letters from Godfrey Evans to his parents and sisters Barbara and Marie (1944)<br \/>Letters from Sister Marie Felicia of Mariaklooster Overloon to the Evans family (1948 &#8211; 1950)<br \/>Letters from Commanding Officer Lieutenant H.F. Henry to the Evans family (27 September and 14 October 1944)<br \/>Letter from Rieki van Sambeek to Barbara Bowen (24 May 1947)<br \/>Letter from Gerarda Janssen &#8211; Van de Voort to Barbara Bowen (21 January 1949)<br \/>Interview Leo Janssen with Wim van de Mortel (May 2021)<br \/>Hike Hoogveld \u2013 MFA Oelbroeck (author Martien Mahler, 2020)<br \/>Testimony father Van den Tillaart to M. Goossens and J. van Goch (1969)<br \/>Oorlog en bevrijding in Oploo c.a. (authors M. Goossens and J. van Goch, 1969)<br \/>Report on the events related to 27 September 1944, the death of Captain Ellis (author Piet Peters, 2021) Glanddwyrydnl.weekly.com<br \/>Museum.Wales<br \/>Nationaltrust.org.uk<br \/>Andersonshelters.org.uk<br \/>Heemkunde-stevensbeek.nl<br \/>The author would like to thank: Julie Smith, Anna Sandbach, Bob Rabone, Jane Hope, Frans van Sambeek, Ben Janssen, Wim van de Mortel<\/p>\n<p>\u00a9 2021 Arno van Dijk on behalf of the Overloon War Chronicles foundation.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\n<!-- {\"name\":\"Basis pagina biografie\\u00ebn\",\"type\":\"layout\",\"children\":[{\"type\":\"section\",\"props\":{\"image_position\":\"center-center\",\"style\":\"default\",\"title_breakpoint\":\"xl\",\"title_position\":\"top-left\",\"title_rotation\":\"left\",\"vertical_align\":\"middle\",\"width\":\"small\"},\"children\":[{\"type\":\"row\",\"props\":{\"layout\":\"1-2,1-2\"},\"children\":[{\"type\":\"column\",\"props\":{\"image_position\":\"center-center\",\"position_sticky_breakpoint\":\"m\",\"width_medium\":\"1-2\"},\"children\":[{\"type\":\"headline\",\"props\":{\"content\":\"Evans | Godfrey\",\"title_element\":\"h3\"}},{\"type\":\"description_list\",\"props\":{\"column_breakpoint\":\"m\",\"layout\":\"grid-2\",\"list_element\":\"ul\",\"list_size\":\"collapse\",\"list_style\":\"divider\",\"meta_align\":\"below-content\",\"meta_style\":\"text-meta\",\"show_content\":true,\"show_link\":true,\"show_meta\":true,\"show_title\":true,\"title_element\":\"div\",\"title_grid_column_gap\":\"small\",\"title_grid_row_gap\":\"small\",\"title_grid_width\":\"small\"},\"children\":[{\"type\":\"description_list_item\",\"props\":{\"content\":\"\n\n<p>Henry Godfrey<\\\/p>\",\"title\":\"First names\"}},{\"type\":\"description_list_item\",\"props\":{\"content\":\"\n\n<p>21<\\\/p>\",\"title\":\"Age\"}},{\"type\":\"description_list_item\",\"props\":{\"content\":\"\n\n<p>28-1-1923<\\\/p>\",\"meta\":\"\",\"title\":\"Date of birth\"}},{\"type\":\"description_list_item\",\"props\":{\"content\":\"\n\n<p>27-09-1944<\\\/p>\",\"meta\":\"\",\"title\":\"Date of death\"}},{\"type\":\"description_list_item\",\"props\":{\"content\":\"\n\n<p>142007931<\\\/p>\",\"meta\":\"\",\"title\":\"Service number\"}},{\"type\":\"description_list_item\",\"props\":{\"content\":\"\n\n<p>Lance Corporal<\\\/p>\",\"meta\":\"\",\"title\":\"Rank\"}},{\"type\":\"description_list_item\",\"props\":{\"content\":\"\n\n<p>King's Shropshire Light Infantry, 4th Bn.<\\\/p>\",\"meta\":\"\",\"title\":\"Regiment\"}},{\"type\":\"description_list_item\",\"props\":{\"content\":\"\n\n<p>IV. 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Each with its own story. In this report series, the Overloon War Chronicles Foundation highlights one such special story each time. This time grave number 13, section IV, row B. of\\u00a0<\\\/p>\\n\n\n<p><strong>Godfrey Evans (1923-1944)<\\\/strong><br \\\/><em>The coincidence factor<\\\/em><\\\/p>\",\"margin\":\"default\"}},{\"type\":\"headline\",\"props\":{\"content\":\"Biography\",\"title_element\":\"h2\"}},{\"type\":\"text\",\"props\":{\"column_breakpoint\":\"m\",\"content\":\"\n\n<p><em>\\\"Incidents like this makes one understand what we are fighting for.\\\"<\\\/em><\\\/p>\\n\n\n<p>(Source: quote from Godfrey Evans\\u2019 letter to his parents and sisters)<br \\\/>\\u00a0<br \\\/>Just waiting. Waiting for the Americans, the Lucky 7th, who are on their way from France to this village in The Netherlands to roll up that bridgehead in Venlo. And then they can finally enter Germany! <br \\\/>This morning\\u2019s small attack action takes place just a couple of miles away from here, so they all can hear the noise in this village. But in the village itself nothing\\u2019s happening on this 27th of September 1944, everybody hopes it stays that way.<br \\\/>\\u00a0<br \\\/>Henry Godfrey Evans is born on Sunday 28 January 1923, in Swansea in Wales. He is the son of Leonard Evans (1892), originally from Hull (but his father was also from South Wales) and Gladys Beatrice Evans, maiden name Probert (1889). The family also consists of 2 daughters: Godfrey's older sister Barbara is born on 21 June 1915 and his younger sister Marie is born on 18 March 1926.<br \\\/>\\u00a0<br \\\/>Economically the 1920s and 1930s are bad years in Wales. While Wales was still an important supplier of copper, iron and coal to British industry in the period from the Industrial Revolution to the First World War, after the First World War Wales fell into a depression. The general economic downturn started in the industry and therefore fewer raw materials were \\u00a0needed. In addition, of the 273,000 men who left Wales for the front in France and Belgium in the First World War, 35,000 never returned. And because many Welsh unemployed people subsequently left the country in search of work elsewhere, the total Welsh population is still shrinking in the 1920s and 1930s. This depression will last until the Second World War. Nevertheless, at the same time Swansea remains an important industrial area.<br \\\/>\\u00a0<br \\\/>The Evans family is a close family with a comfortable social life. They live in Glanbrydan Avenue in Swansea, near the beautiful coast and the children often go camping with groups of friends. Father Leonard is an insurance company manager. In the First World War he was a Captain in the army. Gladys is a skilled housewife. The children attend a private school and have a happy carefree childhood.<br \\\/>\\u00a0<br \\\/>Godfrey starts a job at the Tinplate Conference, a producer of tin plates, in the period before the war. In his spare time he plays the piano and he does that quite well. In addition, he likes sports. He plays football, hockey, tennis and rugby. That also gives him a lot of stamina and a great physical condition which he can use well later on, in the army.<br \\\/>\\u00a0<br \\\/>Because his carefree life changes radically when the Second World War breaks out. Then, as in all major cities in the United Kingdom, larger air raid shelters have already been built in Swansea. And across the country, private individuals are setting up their own Anderson shelter in their gardens, which is half buried underground with a thick layer of soil on top to provide safety for the family. In the period 27 June 1940 \\u2013 16 February 1943 the Luftwaffe carries out various air raids on Swansea, a strategically important city because of the harbor, the docks and a nearby large oil refinery. The Germans want to stop the production and the supply of coal, among other things. The most violent air raids on the city follow 3 days in a row on 19, 20 and 21 February 1941, the Swansea Blitz. Much of the city is destroyed. 230 people are killed and 409 injured. 7000 people lose their homes and belongings.<br \\\/>\\u00a0<br \\\/>Godfrey is already active in the Home Guard, to be precise in the 12th Battalion Glamorgan Home Guard. His father Leonard was Captain in the British Army during the First World War and is now Captain in the Home Guard, No. 8 Company, 12th Battalion, Swansea. 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Henry to the Evans family (27 September and 14 October 1944)<br \\\/>Letter from Rieki van Sambeek to Barbara Bowen (24 May 1947)<br \\\/>Letter from Gerarda Janssen - Van de Voort to Barbara Bowen (21 January 1949)<br \\\/>Interview Leo Janssen with Wim van de Mortel (May 2021)<br \\\/>Hike Hoogveld \\u2013 MFA Oelbroeck (author Martien Mahler, 2020)<br \\\/>Testimony father Van den Tillaart to M. Goossens and J. van Goch (1969)<br \\\/>Oorlog en bevrijding in Oploo c.a. (authors M. Goossens and J. van Goch, 1969)<br \\\/>Report on the events related to 27 September 1944, the death of Captain Ellis (author Piet Peters, 2021) Glanddwyrydnl.weekly.com<br \\\/>Museum.Wales<br \\\/>Nationaltrust.org.uk<br \\\/>Andersonshelters.org.uk<br \\\/>Heemkunde-stevensbeek.nl<br \\\/>The author would like to thank: Julie Smith, Anna Sandbach, Bob Rabone, Jane Hope, Frans van Sambeek, Ben Janssen, Wim van de Mortel<\\\/p>\\n\n\n<p>\\u00a9 2021 Arno van Dijk on behalf of the Overloon War Chronicles foundation.<\\\/p>\",\"margin\":\"default\"}}]}]}],\"name\":\"bronnen en credits\"}],\"version\":\"4.3.4\"} --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Evans | Godfrey First names Henry Godfrey Age 21 Date of birth 28-1-1923 Date of death 27-09-1944 Service number 142007931 Rank Lance Corporal Regiment King&#8217;s Shropshire Light Infantry, 4th Bn. Grave number IV. B. 13. 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