Snowy Evans (Paperback)

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! William John "Snowy" Evans (c. 1891-1925) was a Lewis machine gunner with the 53rd Battery, Royal Australian Artillery (RAA) during World War I. A 2002 documentary produced by Discovery Channel credited him with firing the shot that killed Manfred von Richthofen ("The Red Baron"), near Vaux-sur-Somme, France on April 21, 1918.However, most sources attribute the feat to Sergeant Cedric Popkin of the 24th Machine Gun Company.Other sources have suggested that Gunner Robert Buie, also of the 53rd Battery, fired the fatal shot, but there is now little support for this theory.