TAYLOR, Horace
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Known as:
Spud
Rank:
Lance Sergeant
Unit / Base:
2 Commando
Regiment/Corps:
King's Shropshire Light Infantry
Service:
Army
Number:
5047398
P.O.W. number:
135262
P.O.W. camps:
Lance Corporal Horace Taylor, 2 Troop, was one of the commando contingent embarked on Motor Launch ML 447 for Operation Chariot, the raid at St. Nazaire 28 March 1942. He was evacuated back to the UK after the raid [1].
13 September 1943 (No.2 Commando) wounded during operations in Italy (Salerno) [2].
6 June 1944 (Lance Sergeant) (No.2 Commando) reported missing during operations at Brac, Yugoslavia, later confirmed as a prisoner of war. At this time a small number of commandos from No.2 were engaged in a failed attempt to locate and liberate their Commanding Officer, Lieutenant Colonel 'Jack' Churchill, who had been captured during Operation Flounced on the island of Brac a few days earlier [3][3a][3b].
Sources
[1] St. Nazaire Society website.
[2] Casualty Lists / National Archives file WO417/68.
[3] Casualty Lists / National Archives file WO417/77 and 82.
[3a] Prisoners of War / National Archives file WO392/11.
[3b] Reports attached to the No.2 Commando War Diary on the 12 missing men from No.2 at Brac.
[Image] CVA Gallery image titled Cpl. Horace 'Spud' Taylor and Cpl.Gerald Fitzgerald.
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