Norman Joseph Evans                          Updated:  29 MAR 2021

Airman: a116014.htm Surname: Evans Init: N J Rank: F/O Service: RAF Sqdn: 44

P_link: p378.htm Plane: LAN PB235 Operation: Minelaying Crash_site: Risgårde Bredning

Crash_d: d041044 Buried_d: b060845 C_link: c116.htm At_Next: Aalestrup

Risgårde Bredning. "På mineudlægningsoperation den 4. oktober 1944 nedstyrtede et
Lancaster fly i Risgårde Bredning" (FAF) omkring her.
Se i Weekendavisen den 9. april 2010 Da krigen kom til Salling (pdf 3,05 MB) af Hans Mortensen
om dette fly! Modtaget fra forfatteren. Zoom for at se detaljer. Se også Google Map p378 Lancaster.

"Flyets pilot, N.J. Evans - der omkom på sin 35. mission, synes at være fundet i flyvraget efter krigen. Han blev begravet den 6. august 1945." (FAF)

Flying Officer (Pilot) Norman Joseph Evans, 22 år, var søn af Joseph Henry og May Evans; gift med Eileen Evans (f. Cunliffe), Droylsden, Lancashire, United Kingdom. (Kilde: CWGC)

1 blev begravet i Strandby, 1 i Skive (se monument også om de andre faldne) og 1 i Aalestrup. 2 forsvandt i havet. 2 reddede livet og blev taget til fange. Se Lancaster fotos.  
Historisk Samling og Arkiv Himmerland har mere om dette fly og dets besætning. 7 flyvere. 

 Risgårde Bredning. "On a minelaying operation on 4 October 1944 a Lancaster crashed in Risgårde Bredning" (FAF) about here. See also Google Map p378 Lancaster.

"The pilot, N.J. Evans - who perished on his 35th mission, was apparently found in the wreck of the plane after the war. He was buried on 6 August, 1945." (FAF)

Flying Officer (Pilot) Norman Joseph Evans, 22, was the son of Joseph Henry and May Evans, and the husband of Eileen Evans (nee Cunliffe), of Droylsden, Lancashire, United Kingdom. (Source: CWGC)
He is remembered on The Walls of Names at the International Bomber Command Centre, Ph 1,  P 33.

1 airman buried in Strandby, 1 in Skive (see monument also to the 4 other KIA) and 1 in Aalestrup. 2 disappeared at sea. 2 saved their lives and became prisoners of war.

See No. 44 Squadron RAF (Wikipedia) No. 44 (Rhodesia) Squadron Association * No. 44 Squadron (RAF): Second World War. RAF-Lincolnshire.info: 44 Squadron. 
Lancaster III PB235 KM-C took off from RAF Spilsby at 17.24 hrs on 04 OCT 1944.(Source: Aircrew Remembered has this.) p378MACR * Lancaster Photos.7 airmen.