Elizabeth Evans as Told to Walter Woods, ‘a Soldier's Wife in the Crimea’, Royal Magazine, July 1908, PP. 265-72.
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Like Margaret Kerwin, Elizabeth Evans managed to get to the front lines in the Crimea, and she makes clear the stratagems and deceptions wives had to practise in order to do so―clearly, some army wives, at least, were neither passive nor obedient to army orders. She also makes clear the vital work these wives performed for the officers and men of their regiments. Evans was married to a private in the 4th (King’s Own) Regiment of Foot, which was ordered to the Crimea in 1854. The King’s Own serve