Evan Trewby was the 6th child of a family of nine, is an Old Boy of Palmerston North Boy's High, where he excelled in sport, and no doubt studies, as he went on to become a surveyer,and worked in that field in Hawke's Bay. He went missing in Crete, but no trace of what happened to him was ever found. Some of his family went over to try and find out some information, but to no avail.
Commemorated in perpetuity by the
Commonwealth War Graves Commission
In Memory of
Private EVAN TREWBY
6221, New Zealand Infantry
who died age 34
on 21 May 1941
Son of Percy and Maria Trewby, of Mangaweka, Wellington, New Zealand.
No known grave.
Remembered with honour
Commonwealth War Graves Commission
The World War Two Memorial found in St Martin's on the Close