Evan Albro Woodward
Captain, Army Air Force Intelligence School
Evan was born the 30th of November 1896 in Natick, Massachusetts one of three children born to John and Nellie Woodward. He was raised in Marlborough and a 1915 graduate of Marlborough High School. Evan was accepted into the Officers Training Corps and following his training was commissioned a 2nd Lieutenant of Cavalry the 27th of November 1917.
With the United States entry into the First World War, Evan was assigned to the 130th Infantry Regiment of the 33rd Infantry Division and departed for Europe in January of 1918. He was promoted to 1st Lieutenant of Infantry the 30th of November 1918. While in France Evan participated in fighting at Hamel, Chippily Ridge and both phases of the Meuse-Argonne offensive. With the cessation of hostilities, he was promoted to Captain the 23rd of April 1919 and served as Aide-de-Campe to General Bell Jr, the commanding General of the 33rd Infantry Division.
Evan returned from Europe in May of 1919. He graduated from Dartmouth College in New Hampshire with a bachelors in English with the class of 1922. He married Beatrice Weeks in September of 1923 and they would have three children, Daniel, Nancy and Deborah. Following his graduation from Dartmouth, he taught English at Bates College in Maine for two years before returning to Dartmouth where he taught English from 1924 to 1929. In 1927 he earned a Masters degree from the University of Michigan. In 1929 he resigned his position in the English department and took a job with the Building Products Limited company in Montreal, Canada as a Sales Manager.
Evan remained in the national guard following his discharge in 1919 and served in the 103rd Infantry Regiment, ultimately obtaining the rank of Major. With the outbreak of World War Two, Evan once again desired to serve his country and applied for a commission in the Army Air Forces. He was commissioned a Captain the 26th of June 1942 and assigned to the Air Force Intelligence School in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. On the 8th of July 1942 his body was found in a river near the school having drowned in an apparent post traumatic stress related suicide. He is buried at the Pine Knoll Cemetery in Hanover, New Hampshire.
