William Charles Taylor                     Updated: 15 JAN 2023

Airman: a103006.htm Surname: Taylor Init: W C Rank: Sgt Service: RAF Sqdn: 153

P_link: p407.htm Plane: LAN RA526 Operation: Minelaying Crash_site: Kattegat W of Samsø

Crash_d: d120345 Buried_d: b150645 C_link: c103.htm At_Next: Tranebjerg

Den 12. marts 1945 blev LAN RA526 skudt ned ud for Samsø. Flyvehistorisk Tidsskrift
skriver: "12.-13. marts 1945 (kl. 21.16). Farvandet V for Ringebjerge på Samsø (omkring her). Lancaster B. I, RA526 (P4-.1). 153 BS, 1 BG, Scampton, Lincs. (minering i Kattegat). 

- Kl. 21.16 skød den tyske pilot, Major Werner Husemann, den første Lancaster ned. RA526,
ført af F/0 Kenneth Albert Ayres, DFC, styrtede brændende ned ud for Samsø's vestkyst ved Ringebjerge. - " (FT 91-9-47) Sgt Taylor blev fundet drevet ind ved Vesterløkken (her) den
14. juni 1945. Begravelsen i Tranebjerg fandt sted dagen efter ved sognepræsten. (Kilde: FAF)

Sergeant (Flight Engineer) William Charles Taylor, 24 år, var søn af George Arthur og Elsie Sarah Taylor, Christchurch, Hampshire, United Kingdom. (Kilde: CWGC)

5 flyvere fra LAN RA526 drev ind på kysten af Samsø og blev begravet i Tranebjerg.
1 har ingen kendt grav og 1 blev krigsfange. 7 flyvere. (Se Minelægningsområder)

On 12 March 1945 LAN RA526 was shot down off Samsø. (Danish) Aviation Historical
Review writes:"12.-13. March 1945 (21:16). The waters W of Ringebjerge on Samsø (about
here). Lancaster B. I, RA526 (P4-.1). 153 BS, 1 BG, Scampton, Lincs. (minelaying in the Kattegat). 

 - At 21:16 the German pilot Major Werner Husemann shot down the first Lancaster. RA526
piloted by F/O Kenneth Albert Ayres DFC crashed, burning, off the west coast of Samsø at Ringebjerge. - ” (FT 91-9-47) On 14 July 1945 Sgt Taylor was found drifted ashore at
Vesterløkken (here). The following day he was buried in Tranebjerg by the vicar. (Source: FAF) (See Minelaying areas)

Sergeant (Flight Engineer) William Charles Taylor, 24, was the son of George Arthur and
Elsie Sarah Taylor, of Christchurch, Hampshire, United Kingdom. (Source: CWGC)
He is remembered on The Walls of Names at the International Bomber Command Centre, Phase 1, Panel 105.    

5 airmen from LAN RA526 drifted ashore and were buried in Tranebjerg Churchyard, 1 has no known grave and 1 became a POW.
See Lancaster-Wikipedia * Lancaster photos * RAF Scampton Station homepage and RAF Scampton at RAF-Lincolnshire.info.
Lancaster I RA526 P4-J took off from RAF Scampton at 17:35 on 12 MAR 1945. (Source: Aircrew Remembered has this.) 7 airmen.