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Lot Essay
Sold with a quantity of original documents and photographs, the former including telegrams of congratulation on the award of the D.F.C.
D.F.C. London Gazette 6.3.1956 'In recognition of gallant and distinguished services in Kenya'.
Squadron Leader George Combe "Jock" Taylor, D.F.C., was born in Edinburgh in February 1917 and served as a Fireman on the railways, and in the Cheshire Police, prior to the outbreak of hostilities. Enlisting in the Royal Air Force as a Fitter during the course of 1940, he was selected for flying training and sent to Canada. On gaining his "Wings", Taylor returned to the U.K., served briefly as a Hurricane Pilot at Kenley and then commenced a 12 month tour as a Coastal Command Pilot in the Orkneys. Rated as an 'exceptional' Pilot, he was next posted to the Central Flying School (C.F.S.), at which establishment he finished the War, having assisted in the training of Glider Pilots for D-Day and Arnhem.
Following a brief stint back in "Civvie Street", where he found employment as a Flying Instructor in Leicester, Taylor decided to return to the R.A.F., took a Commission and was posted back to the C.F.S. at Little Rissington. Then in 1955 he joined No. 1340 Flight out in Kenya and flew operationally in Harvards against the Mau Mau, services that resulted in the award of his D.F.C. in the following year. Taylor next flew Meteors out in Cyprus and the Middle East, participated in the Suez Conflict and ended his operational career in Borneo in the early 1960s. Ultimately appointed Senior Air Traffic Controller at R.A.F. Shawbury, he retired as a Squadron Leader with some 6500 hours flying to his credit.
D.F.C. London Gazette 6.3.1956 'In recognition of gallant and distinguished services in Kenya'.
Squadron Leader George Combe "Jock" Taylor, D.F.C., was born in Edinburgh in February 1917 and served as a Fireman on the railways, and in the Cheshire Police, prior to the outbreak of hostilities. Enlisting in the Royal Air Force as a Fitter during the course of 1940, he was selected for flying training and sent to Canada. On gaining his "Wings", Taylor returned to the U.K., served briefly as a Hurricane Pilot at Kenley and then commenced a 12 month tour as a Coastal Command Pilot in the Orkneys. Rated as an 'exceptional' Pilot, he was next posted to the Central Flying School (C.F.S.), at which establishment he finished the War, having assisted in the training of Glider Pilots for D-Day and Arnhem.
Following a brief stint back in "Civvie Street", where he found employment as a Flying Instructor in Leicester, Taylor decided to return to the R.A.F., took a Commission and was posted back to the C.F.S. at Little Rissington. Then in 1955 he joined No. 1340 Flight out in Kenya and flew operationally in Harvards against the Mau Mau, services that resulted in the award of his D.F.C. in the following year. Taylor next flew Meteors out in Cyprus and the Middle East, participated in the Suez Conflict and ended his operational career in Borneo in the early 1960s. Ultimately appointed Senior Air Traffic Controller at R.A.F. Shawbury, he retired as a Squadron Leader with some 6500 hours flying to his credit.