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SAMUEL EVANS  (Private)  19^th (1^st Yorkshire) (Alexandra, Princess of Wale’s Own) Regiment              Samuel Evans volunteered, on April 13^th 1855, to enter an embrasure in order to repair the damage done by a concentrated fire on one of our batteries before Sebastopol.  Our gunners were nearly all killed, and while others wee being brought up to take their place, Evans and Callaghan entered the battery, and, leaping into the embrasure under a heavy fire, undauntedly preserved until the breach was mended.  Callaghan fell during the war.  Evans was one of the sixty-two who received the Cross-from Her Majesty the Queen on June 26^th 1857.  Originally a 26^th Cameronian, which he joined in 1839, serving it in China in 1842, gaining his first Medal, followed by the Crimean with three clasps, the French and Turkish.  He died at Edinburgh in his eighteenth year in October 1901.