Evans, Francis Kent
Personal Information
Rank | F/O |
Forename(s) | Francis Kent |
Surname | Evans |
Gender | M |
Age | 24 |
Decorations | DFM |
Date of Death | 08-01-1944 |
Next of Kin | Son of Alfred Ernest and Florence Kent Evans. Husband of Stella Browning Evans, of Ealing, Middlesex. |
Aircraft Information
Aircraft | de Havilland Mosquito IV |
Serial Number | W4072 |
Markings | AZ-Q |
Memorial Information
Burial/Memorial Country | United Kingdom |
Burial/Memorial Place | Cambridge City Cemetery |
Grave Reference | Grave 14517. |
Epitaph | ONE OF THE FEW FOR THE MANY |
IBCC Memorial Information
Phase | 1 |
Panel Number | 33 |
Enlistment Information
Service Number | 127520 |
Service | Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve |
Group | 5 |
Squadron | 627 |
Trade | Navigator |
Country of Origin | United Kingdom |
Other Memorials
Location | Hilton House Hotel, Hilton, Derbyshire |
Country | United Kingdom |
Memorial Type | Blue Plaque on external wall |
Memorial Text | Air Commodore Herbert Martin Massey CBE DSO MC 1898-1976 Senior British Officer at Stalag Luft III Sagan who authorised 'The Great Escape' was born here. Hilton and Marston History Group |
Miscellaneous Information
His alma mater was the highly regarded Latymer Upper School, Hammersmith, London which lost an incredible 26 of their alumni to Bomber Command in WW2. |
Excerpt from "The Fallen Latymerians of The Second World War": Francis Kent Evans whose date of birth was September 26th 1919 was the son of Mr A. E. Ev-ans, a Physics Lecturer, and the family lived at 10 Elers Rd, Ealing. He had previously been a pupil of Kimbolton School in Huntingdonshire and entered Class 3B at Latymer on September 12th 1933. He left the School in July 1936 from Form Upper VH. He had sat and passed the General Schools Examination in June 1936, achieving Matriculation but did not continue at school to sit the Higher Schools Examination, taking up instead a Clerkship with the North British Insurance Company. This tribute was paid to him in ‘The Latymerian’ edition of Autumn 1944: ‘Francis Kent Evans left School in 1936 and joined the R.A.F. on the outbreak of war. He won the Distinguished Flying Medal on his first tour of operations as a Flight-Sergeant Navigator. After gaining his commission as a Flying Officer, he was killed on his second tour of operations when his Mosquito was shot down over the sea near the coast. The life of his pilot was saved through Evans' efforts, but Evans himself was drowned. His body was recovered and his buried in the military cemetery near Cambridge.’ |
Commonwealth War Graves Commission
The National Archives
Last Operation Information
Start Date | 08-01-1944 |
End Date | 09-01-1944 |
Takeoff Station | Oakington |
Day/Night Raid | Night (98% moon) |
Operation | Frankfurt |
Reason for Loss | Engine failure, crashed in sea off Essex |