A collection of original photos and copy letters relating to Sergeant Arthur Evans CBE, 2 i/c Anti-Tank Platoon, 2nd Irish Guards. Landing with 20 Guards Brigade at Boulogne on the morning of 22nd May 1940, the unit was called into immediate action to defend the approaches to the port against German armour of the 2nd Panzer Division. Arthur's platoon knocked out two German tanks that same afternoon. However, with German infantry outflanking their position, Arthur was wounded in the ankle by shrapnel from a grenade and the platoon was forced to retire, abandoning their guns. Arthur was hospitalised close to the old town (Citadel) and was taken prisoner there on the 24th May. He spent the rest of the war in prison camps in Upper Silesia, being repatriated to the UK in May, 1945. After a long career in the Police force, he retired with his wife Freda to the village of Aldington in Kent. It was with great sadness that I learned of his passing in 2013. To learn more about Arthur's story, read his book 'Sojourn in Silesia' ISBN 0-9516785-3-1
