FLAG APPOINTMENT

Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 55, 8 March 1929, Page 15

FLAG APPOINTMENT

"COMMAND OV AUSTRALIAN NAVY

(From "The Post's" Representative.) LONDON, IStli January. The Admiralty annouuecs the following (lag appointment:— , . Kcnr-Adminil X R. (i. R. Evans, C.8., D.5.0., to be Kear-Admiral Commanding' Royal Australian Navy, in .succession to Keur-Admiral C. I<\ Hyde, C.V.0., C.8.E., K.A.N., to date IStli March. Rear-Ad-miral Evans will take passage in the s.s. 'Alooltnn, leaving England on Oth April, arriving at Sydney 16th May. He will be lent to the Royal Australian Navy from date of disembarkation at Sydney. The choice should prove very popular. Kear-Admiral Evans earned the title "Kvans of the Broke" in 1917, when he commanded the destroyer of that name. With H.M.S. Swift, another destroyer, she defeated six German destroyers which had begun to bombard Dover. He served in the relief ship to the Discovery Antarctic expedition from 1002 till 1004. 11l 1910 he "was second in command of Captain .Scott's expedition, returning in command in 1913 after Captain Scott's, death. In- 1921, when the cruiser Carlisle rescued more than 200 people from the steamer Hong Moh in Eastern waters, Captain Evans (as he then was) personally saved 100 of them by going overboard with a life-line. For this lie was awarded the Silver Medal of the. Royal Humane Society. He is a weil-known lecturer and writer; and he is also a linguist. His present wife is a Norwegian lady ■ by birth, his first wife was Miss Russell, of Christchurch. ■ Admiral and Mrs. Evans have two sons.