Dear Editor,

Further to the enquiry by David Haworth in the Ross Gazette of April 6th, the memorial near Backney Bridge is in memory of the Reverend H St Helier Evans, who died after rescuing two boys from drowning at that spot in August 1904. He himself did not drown but succumbed to a heart attack on the river bank.

His wife and family, of one son and three daughters moved from Brampton Abbotts, where he had been Rector, to Beulah Lodge in Greytree.

His wife continued to play the organ in St Michael and All Angels Church until she died in the mid 1940s. The two older girls, Miriam and Elizabeth lived at Greytree until the mid 1970s.

A W Freer

Ross-on-Wye