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P. D. Taylor |
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Full Names |
Rank /Unit |
Years at Q.E.G.S. |
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Phillip Douglas Taylor |
Sergeant |
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Date / Place of Birth |
Date / Place of Death |
Age at Death |
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1923 |
Tuesday 7th December 1943 |
20 |
Philip was the son of Frederick Henry and Hilda Margaret Taylor, of "Rosslyn", Leigh Road, Wimborne .
Phil boxed for his house in 1937. On the 16th & 17th of December 1938, he was in a play "The Bishop's Candlesticks",which was part of the Annual School Concert. It was reported that, "Taylor, as an escaped convict, was especially convincing: he certainly ate his food in a most convict-
On leaving school in the summer of that year, he commenced work with the Ordnance Survey (R.E.Section).
It is not known when Phil went into the armed services but, in the early summer of 1940, he was already a Lance Corporal in an Army Training School (Boys) -
Sgt Taylor was piloting a Hotspur Glider, which was towed off from RAF Netheravon, at 0930 hours during poor weather, and immediately flew into low cloud. He cast off from the tug, when still in cloud. The glider apparently stalled and he could not regain control before it crashed in a field near Collingbourne Ducis, some 5 or 6 miles from the point of take off and about 2 miles North of Tidworth.
Phil is interred in Wimborne Cemetery.
Five soldiers of the 6th Airborne Division Signals, who were in the glider, were also killed.