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Brian Evans (RAF officer)
Brian Herbert Evans (14 February 1920 – 31 March 1944), was a Royal Air Force bomber pilot who was taken prisoner during the Second World War. Notable for his part in the 'Great Escape' from Stalag Luft III in March 1944 he was one of the men recaptured and subsequently murdered by the ''Gestapo''.
==Pre-war life==
Evans was born in Shaldon, Devon the son of Australian born Dorothy and Captain Herbert Evans (Mercantile Marine) Clan Line steamers.〔Vance (2000), p.19〕 It is noted that German records state that he was born in “Shelton” (sic).〔Andrews (1976), photo page, copy German records〕 The family later moved to Upton near Birkenhead which was near to the port regularly used by Clan Line steamers. In 1933 Alan Cobham’s air circus set up very close to their home and young Brian fell in love with aircraft and flying. In the summer of 1935 the family moved to Cardiff.
Although desperate to get into civil aviation Evans struggled with mathematics and it blocked his progress. He left school in 1938 and moved to Liverpool to work in wholesale grocery and then back to Cardiff as an apprentice in a firm of auctioneers and surveyors.〔Vance (2000), p.20)〕 He joined Cardiff Aeroplane Club and gained his civil pilots license No. 17016 on 7 February 1939 flying a De Havilland DH.60〔Ancestry, Royal Aero Club Certificates 1910-50-Brian Herbert Evans]〕
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