F/O D.C. Evans - Crew 56, Kepwick Bank U.K.

Heligoland - Gardening: 18 Mar. 1944 - F/O D. Evans and crew are returning from a mine-laying mission, however the aircraft impacts the earth in the U.K. killing the entire crew.

P/O R.E. Ballentine, (R-AG); F/O E.G. Armour, (Nav.); Unknown ground crew, F/O D.C. Evans, (Pilot); Sgt. W. Cotton, (W-AG, RAF); Unknown, P/O G. Hutt, (F/E, RAF).

Missing from photo – P/O D.E. Jackson (B/A); P/O J.S. Sleigher, (MU-AG); P/O D.A. Thicke (2nd Dickey)

Richard Allenby's web site "The North Yorkshire Moors" provides in-depth detail/photo's on the details crew 56 crash.