"DR ARTHUR OWEN EVANS. Cable advice was received in Dunedin on March 7 of the death in London of Dr Arthur Owen Evans. He was a graduate of Otago University, and qualified M.B., Ch.B., in July, 1912. He practised his profession in New Zealand until shortly after the outbreak of war. On November 19. 1914, he took his departure for the Old Country as surgeon on R.M.S. Rotorua. On his arrival in London he was appointed assistant house surgeon to the Charing Cross Hospital, which position he kept for some six or eight months, when he proceeded to Edinburgh, where he gained tho diploma of F.R.C.S. in November, 1915. and joined up as temporary captain of the R.A.M.C. on December 6 of the same year. During his work in France with the Royal Army Medical Corps Captain Evans worked strenuously for the latter six months with the serious cases at the 29th casualty clearing station, where 40,000 casualties passed through the operating theatres during that time. In December, 1916, Captain Evans transferred to the N.Z.M.C. when he was appointed assistant surgeon at the Third New Zealand Hospital, Codford, and after some months' work there he returned to New Zealand on duty in September, 1917, in charge of a large draft of men on the s.s. Ionic. Shortly afterwards he was appointed surgeon at the military annexe, Auckland Hospital, which position he held for six months, and on October 1, 1918, was returned to England by the s.s. Matatua in charge of the, 43rd Reinforcements. In January, 1919, Captain Evans received an appointment at the No. 2 New Zealand Hospital, Oatland's Park, which he held until he was demobilised on Jane 28. After being demobilised Dr Evans received an appointment as senior house physician to the City of London Hospital for Diseases of the Chest, which position he held until the time of his death. Dr Evans was a conscientious worker, and was possessed of a bright and cheerful disposition, very popular among the boys, and ever ready to do his share in helping to entertain the soldiers. His death, will be received with much regret by all who knew him. Dr Evans was a son-in-law of Mr Francis Helps, of this City, and leaves a wife and two children." [Evening Star, Issue 17307, 22 March 1920, Page 6]