After serving in the Royal Naval Air Service (later the Fleet Air Arm) in the first world war, Ivor Evans went to America to seek his fortune, didn’t find it and returned to Britain. He went into the Church, studying at Lampeter College. When he qualified, he married Muriel Dewsberry, Doris’s sister (both weddings were at St Peter’s Church, Llanelli). He had a living in Abercynon and later moved to various places including Nottingham and eventually Long Bredy, Dorset.