Group Captain CR Taylor
Charles Rupert Taylor
Named in the book
- Rank
- Group Captain
- Honours
- OBE, Mentioned in Dispatches
- School
- King Edward VII School, SATS General Botha
- Fate
- Survived the war. Died 1997
- In the book
- Pages 31, 122
From the book
Links of Long Standing
Several joined well before war was declared including amongst others, TH Archbell, AS Ainslie, I Bocock, CBE Burt-Andrews GL Cruickshanks, G Chater, IB Difford, FA Harte, GDL Haysom, CB Hull, GLB Hull, AG “Sailor” Malan, EJ Morris, MT Pattle, H Rosofsky, JF Roulston RN Selley, HWL Sheahan CR Taylor and FL Watson.
The Airmen who started at Sea
Charles Rupert Taylor attended King Edward’s in Johannesburg before becoming Cadet No 324. Commissioned in 1933, he survived a Wellington crash in 1941, served on Africa based flying boat squadrons, was “Mentioned in Dispatches” and awarded an OBE. Group Captain Taylor retired in 1946 and died in South Africa in 1997.