Date of birth:

June 14th, 1921 (Clarkson/Renfrewshire, Scotland)

Date of death:

March 30th, 1943 (Vorden/Gelderland, the Netherlands)

Buried on:

Commonwealth War Graves Vorden
Grave: 12.

Service number:

1374466

Nationality:

British

Sergeant RAFVR, 51 Squadron RAF. Son of William Duncan Taylor and Agnes Jane F. Taylor of Clarkston, Glasgow.

Sergeant John Mitchell Taylor was the flight engineer of the Handley Page Halifax BB244 MH-Q, which took off from RAF Snaith on the evening of 29 March 1943. After attacking Berlin, the aircraft was shot down by a German night fighter on its way back. The Halifax crashed at around 0.3:47 near the Veldslagweg in Vorden, killing all six crew members. One crew member, Sergeant Ernest Williams, was taken prisoner of war.

Sergeant Taylor and the other crew members who were killed are buried in the general cemetery in Vorden.

Omkijkpunt published the book “De 20 geallieerde gezichten van Vorden” (The 20 Allied Faces of Vorden). This book tells the stories of the 20 Allied soldiers buried in Vorden, including that of John Taylor.

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• Photo 1: Omkijkpunt
• Photo 2: Jan de Jager
• - FREERK BOEKELO & ROBERT ELLENKAMP, De 20 Geallieerde Gezichten van Vorden, Omkijkpunt, 2022.
  - Sergeant John Mitchell Taylor | War Casualty Details 2648330 | CWGC
  - https://losses.internationalbcc.co.uk/loss/227651/?kiosk=true

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