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Military service
Service number:
R/115196
Age:
22
Rank:
Warrant Officer Class I
Force:
Air Force
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Canadian Air Force
Division:
619 (R.A.F.) Sqdn
Death:
September 12, 1944
Darmstadt, Germany
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Coll. grave 5. E. 8-11.
Additional information
Son of Emry and Alice Evans; husband of Helene M. Evans.
Digital gallery of Warrant Officer Class I Lloyd George Evans
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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] -
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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
Digital gallery of
Warrant Officer Class I Lloyd George Evans
Digital gallery of
Warrant Officer Class I Lloyd George Evans
Digital gallery of
Warrant Officer Class I Lloyd George Evans
Digital gallery of
Warrant Officer Class I Lloyd George Evans
Digital gallery of
Warrant Officer Class I Lloyd George Evans
Digital gallery of
Warrant Officer Class I Lloyd George Evans
Digital gallery of
Warrant Officer Class I Lloyd George Evans
Digital gallery of
Warrant Officer Class I Lloyd George Evans
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 301 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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DURNBACH WAR CEMETERY Germany
Durnbach is a village 16 kilometres east of Bad Tolz, a town 48 kilometres south of Munich. Durnbach War Cemetery is 3 kilometres north of the village Gmund am Tegernsee. Using the A8 from Munich, turn off at the junction Holzkirchen, taking the 318 road in the direction of Gmund am Tegernsee. At the crossroads with the 472, turn left in the direction of Miesbach. The cemetery is situated approximately 500 metres on the left from the 318/472 crossroads.
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