'John Evans, surnamed the Bashi from his association with the corps of Bashi-Bazouks in which he served outside Kars - an association which, loyally remembered, would cause Turkish officers to turn out their guard in his honour whenever his wandering feet carried him in after years within the Sultan's dominions - was a Paladin conspicuously brave among the brave.' Extract from 'Bashi' Evans' obituary in The Scotsman, 13 June 1903 The rare and fascinating campaign group of three to Colonel J. 'Bashi' Evans, 9th (Queen's Royal) Lancers, a restless adventurer who led a band of Turkish Bashi-Bazouks to Kars in an attempt to lift the siege; his raiding activities behind Russian lines greatly assisted General Williams' famous defence of the city Williams then lobbied to secure 'Bashi' a commission in the 9th Lancers, which he discharged most honourably in some of the toughest battles of the Indian Mutiny; contemporary sources attest his devil-may-care attitude and peculiar habit of charging the enemy armed with a hog spear, still retained as part of the Regimental silver Mentioned in dispatches for his coolness under fire in the batteries before Delhi, 'Bashi' also features in the Letters of Brevet-Major Anson, a key piece of Regimental history Volunteer Officer's Decoration, V.R.; Mutiny 1857-59, 3 clasps, Lucknow, Relief of Lucknow, Delhi (Lieut. J. Evans 9th Lancers.); Turkey, Ottoman Empire, General Service Medal, suspension fitted with pin-back, engraved 'Cor… jno. Evans, 9th Lancers' on rim, mounted as worn, very fine (3) John Evans was born at the historic mill village of Darley Abbey, Derbyshire on 14 June 1828. He was the son of Samuel Evans of the W. & S. Evans banking firm, and the nephew of William Evans of Allestree Hall, one of William Wilberforce's closest political associates. His family were prominent bankers and industrialists who oversaw the construction of four cotton mills at Darley Abbey during the late 18th century, as well as over 130 houses for millworkers. John's uncle Walter built St. Matthew's Church in 1818 to serve the village's spiritual needs. Darley Abbey quickly became a 'model village' of the Industrial Revolution, and remains a much-loved heritage site. Evans purchased a Cornetcy in the 6th (Inniskilling) Dragoons on 29 December 1854. His career with this Regiment was brief, for he was dismissed from the service in July 1855 after a 'practical joke' involving a sham duel at the Cavalry Depot, Canterbury. It later transpired that Evans was not the guilty party. Determined to restore his reputation, Evans stated in private correspondence that he 'volunteered at [his] own expense' to serve on the personal staff of Major-General Sir W. Fenwick Williams during the last phase of the Crimean War. He was then aged 27. In June 1855, as Sebastopol continued to resist the Allies, the newly-enthroned Czar Alexander II ordered General Nikolay Muravyov to launch a diversionary attack on the Ottoman citadel of Kars, the gateway to Anatolia. Major-General Williams took command of Kars' neglected Ottoman garrison and transformed its fighting ability, resisting three determined Russian assaults. The importance of this resistance to the overall Allied strategy cannot be overstated (Rundell 2005, 168): 'All efforts were concentrated upon the reduction of Sebastopol which had become the focus of nationalist ambition and la gloire. In many ways this concentration of effort was a good military principle, except that the whole aim of this campaign could have been shattered by the fall of Eastern Turkey and a subsequent massive Russian advance westwards. The fact that this did not happen was due more to the efforts of a handful of British officers in the east than to the planning and operations of the allied military staff… Certainly the inhospitable plains of Turkey would not have supported an Allied army to oppose a Russian attack westwards. The integrity of Turkey - lynchpin of Allied policy - would have been destroye
'John Evans, surnamed the Bashi from his association with the corps of Bashi-Bazouks in which he served outside Kars - an association which, loyally remembered, would cause Turkish officers to turn out their guard in his honour whenever his wandering feet carried him in after years within the Sultan's dominions - was a Paladin conspicuously brave among the brave.' Extract from 'Bashi' Evans' obituary in The Scotsman, 13 June 1903 The rare and fascinating campaign group of three to Colonel J. 'Bashi' Evans, 9th (Queen's Royal) Lancers, a restless adventurer who led a band of Turkish Bashi-Bazouks to Kars in an attempt to lift the siege; his raiding activities behind Russian lines greatly assisted General Williams' famous defence of the city Williams then lobbied to secure 'Bashi' a commission in the 9th Lancers, which he discharged most honourably in some of the toughest battles of the Indian Mutiny; contemporary sources attest his devil-may-care attitude and peculiar habit of charging the enemy armed with a hog spear, still retained as part of the Regimental silver Mentioned in dispatches for his coolness under fire in the batteries before Delhi, 'Bashi' also features in the Letters of Brevet-Major Anson, a key piece of Regimental history Volunteer Officer's Decoration, V.R.; Mutiny 1857-59, 3 clasps, Lucknow, Relief of Lucknow, Delhi (Lieut. J. Evans 9th Lancers.); Turkey, Ottoman Empire, General Service Medal, suspension fitted with pin-back, engraved 'Cor… jno. Evans, 9th Lancers' on rim, mounted as worn, very fine (3) John Evans was born at the historic mill village of Darley Abbey, Derbyshire on 14 June 1828. He was the son of Samuel Evans of the W. & S. Evans banking firm, and the nephew of William Evans of Allestree Hall, one of William Wilberforce's closest political associates. His family were prominent bankers and industrialists who oversaw the construction of four cotton mills at Darley Abbey during the late 18th century, as well as over 130 houses for millworkers. John's uncle Walter built St. Matthew's Church in 1818 to serve the village's spiritual needs. Darley Abbey quickly became a 'model village' of the Industrial Revolution, and remains a much-loved heritage site. Evans purchased a Cornetcy in the 6th (Inniskilling) Dragoons on 29 December 1854. His career with this Regiment was brief, for he was dismissed from the service in July 1855 after a 'practical joke' involving a sham duel at the Cavalry Depot, Canterbury. It later transpired that Evans was not the guilty party. Determined to restore his reputation, Evans stated in private correspondence that he 'volunteered at [his] own expense' to serve on the personal staff of Major-General Sir W. Fenwick Williams during the last phase of the Crimean War. He was then aged 27. In June 1855, as Sebastopol continued to resist the Allies, the newly-enthroned Czar Alexander II ordered General Nikolay Muravyov to launch a diversionary attack on the Ottoman citadel of Kars, the gateway to Anatolia. Major-General Williams took command of Kars' neglected Ottoman garrison and transformed its fighting ability, resisting three determined Russian assaults. The importance of this resistance to the overall Allied strategy cannot be overstated (Rundell 2005, 168): 'All efforts were concentrated upon the reduction of Sebastopol which had become the focus of nationalist ambition and la gloire. In many ways this concentration of effort was a good military principle, except that the whole aim of this campaign could have been shattered by the fall of Eastern Turkey and a subsequent massive Russian advance westwards. The fact that this did not happen was due more to the efforts of a handful of British officers in the east than to the planning and operations of the allied military staff… Certainly the inhospitable plains of Turkey would not have supported an Allied army to oppose a Russian attack westwards. The integrity of Turkey - lynchpin of Allied policy - would have been destroye
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