Frank Evans, Jr. (1925-1944)

Born July 6, 1925, Frank Evans was from Brooklyn, New York, where he was an outstanding student at P.S. 93 Boys High School, and the Adelphi Academy. In September 1942 when he had just turned seventeen, Evans enrolled at Dickinson with the class of 1946. He was pursuing a chemistry major when he enlisted in the army in August 1943.

Evans trained at Fort Benning, Georgia and left for Europe to join Company E., 405th Infantry, as its youngest member in August 1944. A devout member of the Episcopal Church, he wrote to his mother in November that "So far I have felt little fear up here. God is closer to the front lines than any place else." Five days later, Frank Evans was killed in action in Germany on November 22, 1944, aged nineteen years and four months.

More information about other Dickinson war casualties can be found through the online project "In Remembrance" (see link for related entries below).