Harry Evans (Australian footballer)
# Harry Evans (Australian footballer)

Hector William "Harry" Evans (4 September 1879 – 23 February 1949) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Carlton in the Victorian Football League (VFL).

Evans returned to the Ovens & Murray Football League in 1900 and played in Excelsior's 1900 premiership.

## Family

The son of George Alexander Evans (1841-1887), and Emma Lythgoe Evans (1848-1922), née Lasslett, Hector William was born in Shepparton on 4 September 1879.

## Military service

He enlisted in the First AIF on 18 August 1914, and he served overseas in the 7th Australian Infantry Battalion. He sustained gunshot wounds to his left thigh and leg, on active service, that immediately required three operations; and, as well, he received treatment for the wounds' sequelae on several occasions post-war.

Although Evans had been allocated a block of land under the "Soldier Settlement Scheme", his service record shows that he surrendered the block in the second half of 1933.

## Death

He died at Barnawartha, Victoria on 23 February 1949.

