Born at Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, c.1831.
Enlisted at London on the 2nd of January 1855.
Age: 24.
Height: 5. 6".
Trade: Labourer.
Joined the regiment in the Crimea on the 25th of May 1855.
Transferred to the 3rd Dragoon Guards at Brighton on the 1st of March 1857. Regimental No. 306.
Joined the Depot at Canterbury from India on the 22nd of December 1866.
Died at Ipswich on the 13th of March 1874.
Entitled to the Crimean medal with clasp for Sebastopol.
Not recorded by Lummis and Wynn.
From the Ipswich Observer, 21st of March 1874:
Interment at Ipswich Cemetery during the week ending 20th of March 1874 — Parish of St. Andrew, William Evans, aged 44 years.
Military Funeral — The interment of Private William Evans of the 3rd (Prince of Wales) Dragoon Guards, who died recently at the Cavalry Barracks from bronchitis, took place on Monday last at the Cemetery in the presence of a large concourse of people. Deceased was 44 years of age and all the winter had suffered from severe bronchitis, following a severe cold.
The funeral party was under the command of Major Brooke. Twelve of the former comrades of the deceased, who acted as a firing- party, walked before, next came the coffin on a gun-carriage, drawn by six horses, on which was placed the helmet, sword and carbine of the dead soldier; his charger draped in black followed, then came the mourners, and lastly some fifty Dragoons marching in double file.
The service was most impressively read by the Revd. J. Matthews, Vicar of St. Matthews, and afterwards three volleys were fired over the grave. Mrs. Evans, the widow of the deceased, for whom great sympathy was felt, swooned at the first volley. The deceased had been in the service about 30 years [sic] and was present at Balaclava... [sic].