PRIVATE GEORGE EDWARD EVANS
KING'S OWN ROYAL LANCASTER REGIMENT
8TH JANUARY 1917 AGE 20
BURIED: LIJSSENTHOEK MILITARY CEMETERY, BELGIUM
George Evan's inscription comes from a hymn, The Sands of Time are Sinking written in 1857 by Anna Ross Cousin, the wife of a minister in the Free Church of Scotland. She was inspired by the writings of Samuel Rutherford (1600-1661) on whose last words, "Glory, glory dwells in Immanuel's land", she based the refrain in her nineteen-verse hymn.
The inscription comes from verse 9:
With mercy and with judgement
My web of time He wove,
And aye the dews of sorrow
Were lustred with his love!
I'll bless the hand that guided,
I'll bless the heart that plann'd,
When thrones where glory dwelleth
In Immanuel's land.
What happens in your life is willed by God and although you may meet with sorrow, scorn, hatred and woe along your way at the end you can be sure that "Glory - glory dwelleth in Immanuel's land.
George Evans, who served in D Coy 1st/5th King's Own Royal Lancaster Regiment, died of wounds in a Casualty Clearing Station at Lijssenthoek on 8 January 1917.