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Edwards, Roger Nicholas, Baron Crickhowell, brother of David William Wood Edwards (qv); b. 25 Feb. 1934; adm. Sept. 1947 (B); left July 1952; 2nd Lieut. 1st Batt. Welch Fusileers 1952-4; Trin. Coll. Camb., matric. 1954, BA 1957, MA 1968; Wm Brandts Sons & Co. Ltd., bankers, 1957-76, dir. 1972-6; member of Lloyd’s 1976, dir. A. L. Sturge 1970-6, PA Internat. & Sturge 1977-9; MP (Cons. ) Pembroke 1970-87; Sec. of State for Wales 1979-87; PC 1979; Hon. Fellow Univ. Coll. Cardiff 1985; created Baron Crickhowell 1987; pres. Univ. of Wales at Cardiff 1988-98; chmn. Nat. Rivers Authority 1989-96, Cameron May 1992-4, ITNET 1995-2004; dir. Welsh National Opera 1988-92; pres. Contemporary Art Soc. for Wales 1988-93; pres. SE Wales Arts Assn. and Contemporary Art Soc. for Wales; Hon. LLD Univ. of Glamorgan 2001; member House of Lords EU Sub-Committees 2000-10, Science and Tech. Committee 2007-10, Constitution Committee 2010-5; m. 26 Jan. 1963 Ankaret, d. of William James Healing, co. dir., of Tewkesbury, Gloucs.; d. 17 Mar. 2018.

Ekserdjian, Angus George Martin, son of Col. Nubar Martin Ekserdjian TA TD, economist, of Knaphill, Surrey, and Mabel Brown, d. of George Angus, steel maker, of Motherwell, Lanarks; b. 11 Dec. 1948; adm. May 1962 (B); left Dec. 1967; Trin. Coll. Camb., matric. 1968, BA 1971, MA 1976; called to the Bar, Middle Temple Feb. 1973; d. 26 Mar. 1989.

Engleheart, David Robin Cecil, brother of John Rudolf Cecil Engleheart (qv); b. 16 Apr. 1917; adm. Sept. 1930 (B), KS Sept. 1931; left July 1934; Intell. Corps 1942-6 (Capt., attached HQ. 49 Divn); despatches (NW Europe) Aug. 1945 and Apr. 1946; joint HM Moffats Sch. Hatfield, Herts, later Kinlet Hall, Bewdley, Worcs; regional dir. ISIS (central England) 1990; m. 24 July 1950 Esmé Lilian, d. of Rev. Horace Townsend Boultbee, Rector of Lifton, Devon; 2 July 2003.

Essex, Barrington David, son of Lionel Essex of Ealing and Phyllis Sybil, d. of Edward Harrison of Ealing; b. 29 Apr. 1936; adm. Sept. 1949 (B); left July 1954; Peterhouse Camb., matric. 1954, but did not graduate; a chartered accountant, FCA 1962; m. 1st, Nov. 1960 June Conrad; 2nd, July 1976 Sandra Raeburn of Angmering, Sussex; d. 27 Feb. 2008.

Evans, Geoffrey Alan, brother of Ralph Gordon Evans (qv); b. 18 May 1924; adm. Sept. 1937 (B); left July 1942; RN 1942-6; Gonville & Caius Coll. Camb., matric. 1946, BA 1948, MA 1978; asst. librarian Devon County Library 1950-6; Foreign Office 1957-9; Brit. Council 1959-71; Commonwealth Inst. 1971-2; NSW Coll. of Paramedical Studies, Australia 1972-4; Milperra Coll. of Advanced Education, NSW, Australia 1974-84; retd. 1984; m. 29 Aug 1953 Dorothy Isabelle, d. of Alan Stuart of Exeter, Devon; d. 12 Feb. 1994.

Evans, Ralph Gordon, son of Henry John Evans, member Lond. Stock Exchange, of Wimbledon, and Edith, d. of Alfred Alsbury Crates of Burnham, Bucks; b. 19 Jan. 1920; adm. Sept. 1933 (B); left Dec. 1937; Caius Coll. Camb., matric. 1938, BA 1947; RE in WW2 (Lieut.); a chartered engineer, MRAeS MIMechE; Brit. Aircraft Corpn; m. 18 May 1971 Beryl Gladys, d. of Robert Stringer of Spalding, Lincs.; 26 Jan. 2007.

Evers, Gilbert Davey, son of Harold Evers of Bromley; b. 11 Jan. 1912; adm. Sept. 1925 (B), (A) Sept. 1926; left Apr. 1929; RAFVR 1939-45 (Flt Serg., flying instructor); PO Jan. 1945; killed in air operations over Germany 28 Jan. 1945.

Gilbert Davey “Pop” Evers was born at Bromley, Kent on the 11th of January 1912 the younger son of Harold Evers, a chartered secretary, and Rhoda Skene (nee Heathcote) Evers of 6, Haven Green, Ealing in London. He was educated at Westminster School where he was up Busby’s from September 1925 and up Ashburnham from September 1926 to April 1929.
He was granted a short service commission in the Royal Air Force with the rank of Acting Pilot Officer on the 21st of October 1935 and was confirmed in his rank on the 21st of October 1936. He resigned his commission on the 11th of March 1937.
On the outbreak of war he was working as an instrument flying instructor and was lodging at 83, Grand Avenue, Hassocks in Sussex.
He enlisted in the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve in 1940 where he rose to the rank of Warrant Officer before being commissioned as a Pilot Officer on the 16th of January 1945.
On the 28th of January 1945, Bomber Command dispatched 153 Lancasters for an operation on the Gremberg railway marshalling yards at Cologne. The weather was clear and the target was hit but with some bombs overshooting.
Gilbert Evers and his crew took off from RAF Chedburgh at 10.46am on the 27th of January 1945 in Lancaster Mk I PD296 HA-B, as the Squadron’s lead aircraft for the operation. This was to be his 30th operation, the final one of his tour of operations. While the aircraft was in the target area it was hit by anti aircraft fire and crashed at 2pm at Bergisch-Gladbach, 14 kilometres to the east north east of the centre of Cologne, with the loss of all but one of the crew.
The crew was: -
Pilot Officer Gilbert Davey Evers (Pilot)
Sgt Ernest Noel James Francis (Flight Engineer)
Flying Officer Frederick J. Norton (2nd Navigator) (Wounded) (POW)
Flight Sergeant Anthony Morris (Navigator)
Flight Sergeant David Charles Allen (Air Bomber)
Flight Sergeant Eric Holland (Wireless Operator)
Sergeant Edward Bertram Barradell (Air Gunner)
Warrant Officer John Towns DFC (Air Gunner)
Theirs was one of four aircraft which were lost during the operation, one of which crash landed in liberated France.
The navigator, Frederick Norton, was the only member of the crew to survive. He had been wounded by shrapnel in the arm but landed safely by parachute and was captured. Had Gilbert Evers survived the operation he would have been stood down from further operations.
He is commemorated on the war memorial at the Church of Christ the Saviour, Ealing.
He is buried at Reichswald Forest War Cemetery Plot 31, Row C, Grave 1.

Evetts, Desmond Frederick, brother of Julian Arthur Evetts (qv); b. 23 Jan. 1914; adm. Sept. 1927 (B); left July 1930; dir. of Thames lighterage firm; Oxf. & Bucks LI 1940, transf. to RE (Trans­portation) 1942 (Lieut.); m. 7 Mar. 1942 Rosamond Mary, d. of Col. Percy Scamander Clarke MC, Indian railway executive, of West Meon, Hants.; d. Mar. 2007.

Fairweather, Alastair Harold, son of Harold George Fairweather, chartered patent agent, of Stoke Poges, and Margaret Wight, d. of David Black of Glasgow; b. 3 Mar. 1920; adm. Sept. 1933 (B); left Mar. 1938; Merchant Navy in WW2; a sales director; m. 15 Oct. 1955 Isabel, d. of Thomas Skinner of Glasgow; d. 29 Dec. 1982.

Fearnley, George Roche, son of Harold Fearnley FRCS of Blackheath, and Kathleen Tregonning Howe; b. 6 June 1915; adm. Apr. 1929 (B); left July 1932; St Thom. Hosp. Med. Sch., MB MRCS LRCP 1939; MRCP 1942; Lieut. RAMC July 1945; FRCP 1962; consult. physician North Gloucs Area; author of articles on Fibrinolysis in Nature, The Lancet, BMJ etc.; m. 1st Sept. 1941 Joyce Enid, d. of A. H. Andrews of Blackheath; 2nd Elizabeth Munson, d. of Frank Baier of New York; 3rd 28 Feb. 1979 Rosemary Maureen Byrne; d. Jun 1994.