Edwin Van Meter "Bud" Evans was born on September 10, 1893 in Bedford, Taylor County, Iowa. He was the son of Jesse Joshua and Clara Jane Creek Evans. He entered the military service in Colorado. He served in the U.S. Army during World War I as a Second Lieutenant in Company F, 16th Infantry Regiment, 1st Infantry Division. He was Killed in Action but declared ""Missing"" on July 20, 1918 and is memorialized on Tablets of the Missing, Aisne-Marne American Cemetery, Belleau, France. His name is inscribed on the Buzancy monument as LT W V EVANS. He also has a cenotaph in Bedford Cemetery, Iowa that reads:

EVANS, TO THE MEMORY OF LIET.
EDWIN VAN METER EVANS
CO F 16TH INF 1ST DIV. BORN
1894 KILLED IN ACTION
JULY 18, 1918 IN SOISSONS
DRIVE, BURIED AT CUTRY
AISNE, FRANCE

Citation to his award:
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Edwin V. Evans, Second Lieutenant, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action south of Soissons, France, July 23, 1918. When his battalion was forced to fall back before heavy machine-gun and artillery fire, Lieutenant Evans led six runners in an attack on an enemy machine-gun nest. They had progressed about 200 yards ahead of the line when this officer, who was in advance of his men, was instantly killed just as he reached the machine-gun nest.
General Orders No. 44, W.D., 1919

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