19 Wind Street

 The Adelphi Bar 19 Wind Street.  Reveals that it has an interesting past.

1918.  The year that the Spanish Flu, the first outbreak, it was the greatest medical disasters of the 20^th century.  During the first wave, conventionally started on the 4^th March 1918, Albert Gitchell an American army cook, at Camp Funston being the first case.  A week later, 552 men of the camp had reported sick.

As the US entered the war, and men from Camp Funston, the virus spread from camp to camp and then eventually to other US camps and in Europe.  By April 1918, it had reached the French coast, it reached the rest of France, Great Britain, Italy and Spain. 

The first wave of the Spanish flu lasted during the first quarter of the year and it was reported to have been mild.  The military operations had significant disruption, with three quarters of the French troops, half the British forces and 900,000 German soldiers falling sick.

David Evans 

David Evans, landlord of the Adelphi Bar, was one of the victims of the first wave of the Spanish flu.

David who was 33 years old.  Not only being a landlord, David, was a Special Constable, he also acted as a chauffeur for the police motor ambulance.

Whilst working as an ambulance driver, David conveyed cases of influenza from the neighbouring district.  Having worked for the whole day, he went back home ill.  The cause of his death was had been resulting from influenza and pneumonia.

David, was a native of Cardigan, was a member of the Shakespeare Lodge of the Royal Antediluvian Order of Buffaloes.  The Adelphi was the headquarters.

David was buried at Tycoch cemetery.