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.

In 1933 Alan Cobham’s air circus set up very close to their home and young Brian fell in love with aircraft and flying.

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.

14 Operational Training Unit at RAF Cottesmore making anti-submarine patrols in Avro Anson aircraft and on 4 May 1940 he was confirmed as pilot officer[7][8] On 30 September 1940 he was posted to No.

Evans managed to get the damaged bomber home and crash landed at Lenham, Kent at 0450 hours; three of the crew survived alive but one died.

[10] Flying as second pilot with an experienced crew Evans took part in a night attack on German airfields in Northern France on 6 December 1940.

Handley Page Hampden serial number P4404 (squadron codes EA-R) received anti-aircraft damaged and then ran into a snowstorm over Paris where both engines iced up and failed, the aircraft had to be crash landed in a field near Courville, Marne where all but one airman was injured.