Group Captain Nicolas Tindal-Carill-Worsley RAF

Royal Air Force

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 (known as Nicolas Tindal) (1911–2006), son of Cmdr Ralph Tindal-Carill-Worsley, RN, was a bomber pilot during the Second War and helped plan and execute the Great Escape from Stalag Luft III

Stalag Luft III

Stalag Luft III was a Luftwaffe-run prisoner-of-war camp during World War II that housed captured air force servicemen. It was in the German Province of Lower Silesia near the town of Sagan , southeast of Berlin...

, where he was imprisoned between 1940 and 1945.

Great Escape

His particular responsibility preceding the Great Escape was to forge the documents of the escapers. He had originally been on the list of airmen due to escape from the camp in the daring enterprise, but had given his name to a brother officer whose wife was due to give birth in England. This man was shot along with other airmen at the direct orders of Reichsmarschall Hermann Göring

Hermann Göring

Hermann Wilhelm Göring, was a German politician, military leader, and a leading member of the Nazi Party. He was a veteran of World War I as an ace fighter pilot, and a recipient of the coveted Pour le Mérite, also known as "The Blue Max"...

, an order that was one of the pieces of evidence most critical in securing Göring's conviction at the Nuremberg trials.
Tindal had had his own, successful, escapes - once escaping in German uniform for eight days, before being caught near Hamburg.

Family

Tindal married Winifred (1913–1997), daughter of Maj. Henry Cooper, and they had seven children: Charles (m Rosemary Dennehy), Penelope (m Henry Maitland Clark

Henry Maitland Clark

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, colonial officer and MP for Antrim North (1959–1970)), Francis (married Brigid Lauder), Caroline (m Peter Dawnay), Jacqueline (m John Hoar, son of Dr Harold Frank Hoar

Frank Hoar

Harold Frank Hoar, FRIBA , was a British architect, artist, academic and architectural historian. Hoar first came to public prominence when, at the age of 25, he won a competition to design the first terminal building at London's Gatwick Airport in the 1930s...

), Anthony (m Penelope Railton) and Ralph (m Caroline Villiers-Stuart).

External links

• Obituary, Irish Times, 18 February 2006