LEST WE FORGET
Flight Sergeant William Stanley EVANS
Service No: 424563
Born: Manly NSW, 3 November 1923
Enlisted in the RAAF: 12 September 1942
Unit: No. 166 Squadron (RAF), RAF Station Kirmington
Died: Air Operations: (No. 166 Squadron Lancaster aircraft MG200), Germany, 28 November 1944, Aged 21 Years
Buried: Durnbach War Cemetery, Bayern, Germany
CWGC Additional Information: Son of Daniel Bird Evans and Ethel Evans, of Mosman, New South Wales, Australia
Roll of Honour: Mosman NSW
Remembered: Panel 121, Commemorative Area, Australian War Memorial, Canberra ACT
Lancaster MG200 took off from RAF Kirmington at 1600 hours on the night of 27/28 November 1944, detailed to bomb Freiburg, Germany. Nothing was heard from the aircraft after take off and it failed to return to base. The aircraft crashed in the target area and all the crew members were killed.
The crew members of MG200 were:
Flight Sergeant George Arthur Barrett (1623973) (RAFVR) (Rear Gunner)
Flight Sergeant William Stanley Evans (424563) (Wireless Air Gunner)
Flying Officer Stanley Gale (154202) (RAFVR) (Air Bomber)
Flight Sergeant William Henry Holbrook (1622836) (RAFVR) (Mid Upper Gunner)
Flight Sergeant Thomas Dennis Ingle (1683129) (RAFVR) (Navigator)
Sergeant Harold Jackson (1593864) (RAFVR) (Flight Engineer)
Flight Lieutenant Richard Lyon Strachan (152397) (RAFVR) (Pilot)
References:
Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour On-Line Records (RAAF Casualty Information compiled by Alan Storr (409804))
Commonwealth War Graves Commission On-Line Records
Department of Veterans’ Affairs On-Line WWII Nominal Roll
National Archives of Australia On-Line Record A705, 166/12/68