A Post-War C.B.E. Group of Five, awarded to the Rev. D. D. L. Evans, Royal Army Chaplains' Department, onetime Honorary Chaplain to the Queen and Deputy Chaplain-General to the Forces: he had earlier won a "mention" in the pre-war Palestine operations, comprising the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire C.B.E. (Military) Commander's Neck Badge, 2nd type, in silver gilt and enamel, in original Garrard & Co Ltd case with ribbon, General Service Medal 1918-62 (George VI) with clasp PALESTINE, named REV.D.D.L.EVANS. R.A.CH.D., Defence Medal, War Medal with MID oak leaf, and Coronation Medal 1953, with the miniatures, a related Honorary Chaplain to the Queen Badge, EIIR in gilt metal and enamel, full size and miniature, medal ribbon bars and related ephemera
Footnote:- David Douglas Lloyd Evans, who was born in February 1905, entered the Royal Army Chaplains' Department as a United Board Chaplain in July 1934. Active service followed in Palestine 1936-39, for which he was mentioned in despatches (London Gazette 15 September 1939), and he was appointed a 2nd Class Chaplain to the Forces in January 1940. Thereafter, he appears to have served on the home establishment, although he was serving as Senior Staff Chaplain, Middle East Land Forces by the War's end. Advanced to 1st Class Chaplain to the Forces in January 1953, shortly after a posting to the British Army on the Rhine, he served as Assistant Chaplain-General to Far East Land Forces in the mid-1950s and was advanced to Deputy Chaplain-General (ranking as Brigadier), and awarded the C.B.E., shortly before his retirement in January 1960. Evans, who had earlier been awarded the O.B.E. (London Gazette 13 June 1946), was one-time Honorary Chaplain to the Queen.