Canadian Virtual War Memorial

Memorial – Warrant Officer Class I Lloyd George Evans is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens

Memorial – Warrant Officer Class I Lloyd George Evans is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens

Memorial – Father J P Lardie's comments as inscribed on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens

Photo of Lloyd George Evans – Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me

Newspaper clipping – From the Toronto Star October 1944. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me

Newspaper clipping – From the Toronto Star October 1944. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me

Newspaper Clipping – newspaper clipping WOI Evans served as air gunner on 619 (RAF) Squadron and was the only Canadian on the crew of Lancaster LM209. On the night of 11/12 September 1944, 226 Lancasters and 14 Mosquitos of No 5 Group were sent on an operation to the German city of Darmstadt. 12 Lancasters were lost, or 5.3 per cent of the force. LM209 was airborne 2045 on 11 Sep 44 and crashed 0030 12 Sep 44 into a dense wood, about 1 km SW of Darmstadt Airfield. The wreckage lay undiscovered until 10 May 47, when the authorities examined a large crater and recovered the remains of the crew. All were initially taken for burial to Neckargemund. They have been subsequently re-interred in Durnbach War Cemetery. The other aircrew were: S/L R.A.Squibbs, Sgt A.Furnival; F/S J.Singer; F/O J.F.Parry; Sgt J.Davison; Sgt D.Greenley. [Source: /www.lostbombers.co.uk/bomber.php?id=3802]

Newspaper Clipping