innings for Kent in May and was, on the strength of these performances, picked for the England team for the second Ashes Test at Lord's in June. Aged 32, this was Evans' only Test match. He scored 4 and 14 runs in his two innings and Wisden reported that the Test was "perhaps rather too big for him." Other reports suggested that he was "so nervous that his knees were knocking together … his nerve had gone and the first straight ball did for him". He continued to play at first-class level only occasionally, sometimes for Kent and sometimes for other teams such as Harlequins, until the 1927 season when he was appointed captain of Kent and made 23 first-class appearances. During the 1927 season Evans scored 832 runs at an average of 25.21, including three hundreds, one of which was his highest score or 143 made against Lancashire. He won his Kent cap during the same season before going on to make his final nine first-class appearances the following year. In all, Evans made 36 first-class appearances for Kent and scored almost 3,500 runs in his first-class career. Military service At the outbreak of the First World War Evans was approached to join the newly founded Intelligence Corps, having been identified as a good candidate as a result of his year spent in Germany after graduating from Oxford. He initially joined the mounted section of the Corps, but was injured in a motorcycle accident in France in September 1914. In February 1915 he was attached to No. 3 Squadron, Royal Flying Corps an observer. The squadron was the first to use aerial photography to record details of enemy positions with observers, such as Evans, taking images at low altitudes, often whilst under fire. In September 1915 he was awarded the Military Cross for continuing to observe whilst his aircraft was under attack from an enemy plane and was also Mentioned in Dispatches. In early 1916 he became a pilot and was active spotting German artillery positions during the Battle of the Somme. He and his observer, Lieutenant Long, were tasked with a series of continuous reconnaissance flights during July. On 16 July their aircraft malfunctioned and the pair were forced to land behind enemy lines and were captured by German forces after crash landing their plane to avoid it falling into enemy hands. Evans was made a prisoner of