Can we identify this airman?

[Thudnut]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1107802/Pictured-The-amazing-tin-bomber-British-pilot-Great-Escape-POW-camp.html

I'm going to trawl through the lost bombers website, but wonder if anyone has a better idea?

It would be great to properly identify Mr Taylor.

Thudders

[rafcommands]

Only two Taylor PoWs with initial E in the PoW Lists of 1944.

E G Taylor and E J Taylor

Neither was a Halifax loss so not quite a match for the model.

For futher research the losses for EG and EJ

ME846 and
BK767

Regards
Ross
 

[Deb D]

Would it be useful if we knew the address of the house where it was found?  Does A*****  have archives of British phone book listings?

[themonsstar]

Having a look at PoWs of Great Britain & the Empire 39-45, there are no RAF Officers with an E in there name. For the other ranks six:

344(Lamsdorf) PoW No 38 Taylor A.E. W/O Service No 948590.

357(Kopernikus) PoW No 1103 Taylor D.E. W/O Service No 1388419.

L6(Stalag Luft Heydekug) PoW No 261, Taylor E.G. F/Sgt service No 1600154.

L3(Stalag Luft Sagan & Belaria) PoW No 7896 Taylor E.J. W/O service No 926852. This one is Camp III at Sagan Poland.

L3 (Stalag Luft Sagan & Belaria) PoW No 6443 Taylor J.E. F/Sgt Service No 986389.This one is Camp III at Sagan Poland.

Taylor L.E.J. F/Sgt service No 1585057.

[lothian]

There was an E.Taylor in the 100 Sqn in 1944. E.Taylor pt2 and was listed as living at 9 Howey Place, Paddington.
Hope this helps.
Info from; http://www.patrickwilson.com/annals/book.html under other ranks.

Lothian.

[Flakdodger]

Had a look at the newspaper link. The photo of the diary extract is causing a very very - oh so very - dim light bulb to go off in my brain.
I think this is the original of a facsimile that was self published in the 1980s. I think the title was 'A POW's Log' or 'A POW's Diary'. I can see the book in my mind's eye, small, hardback olive green boards.
Feel certain that the author was Eric Taylor.
Unfortunately my computer is about to "fall over" and I will search again tomorrow when its virtual memory has replenished.
I am also going to state what I hope will not be a controversial opinion - but I doubt if the Halifax model was made by Mr Taylor at the camp...and survived the awful privations of the Forced Marches the POWs were forced to undergo in that last winter of the war.
Dave

[scrimnet]

What are the ID letters thingy  on the side of the fuselage...??

I can't quite make it out...

Would that not help ID the chap if it is his aircraft...??

[David Layne]

This newspaper article is creating a great deal of interest and speculation in many different forums.

I think the "diary" entry comes from a P.O.W.'s "Wartime Log" issued by the Red Cross.  I have attached a picture of the cover of my father's Wartime Log.

Like Flakdodger I have wondered about the model of the Halifax.  My father also endured the "Winter and Spring Marches" from Stalag Luft III and consequently I don't see how something so fragile could be kept intact.

I am following this and other threads with great interest.

[scrimnet]

PK or RK F??