Curtis, ESG
(1882 - 1917)
Key Facts
DATE OF BIRTH:
23rd April 1882
YEARS ATTENDED THE COLLEGE:
1894 - 1898
HOME ADDRESS WHEN AT THE COLLEGE:
Cedar House, 27 Herne Hill
REGIMENT
7th Battalion, Middlesex Regiment (Territorial Force)
FINAL RANK:
2nd Lieutenant
DATE OF DEATH:
3rd May 1917
AGE AT DEATH:
35
WHERE HE DIED (or was wounded)
Arras
LOCATION OF GRAVE OR MEMORIAL:
Arras Memorial Bay 7
2nd Lieutenant Evelyn St. George Curtis
Born on St. George’s Day, April 23rd, 1882, Evelyn was the fourth child, and second son, of journalist and author George Curtis and his wife, Caroline. After starting at the College at the same time as his elder brother Stanley, he left in the spring of 1898, and was soon making his living as an artist, often doing illustrations for magazines.
In October of 1914 he joined the Middlesex Regiment of the Territorials, and spent much of the next two years serving with them in East Anglia, including notably being in the area during the so-called Bombardment of Yarmouth in April 1916. In January of the following year Evelyn took a commission in the 7th Battalion of the Middlesex Regiment, and by the end of February he was on the front line in France. Not long afterwards, on May 3rd, he was involved in a major battle near Arras when, having already been wounded in the arm, he went missing, and was never seen again; he is assumed to have died on that date.
