DAILY TELEGRAPH – OBITUARY GORDON MELLOR

Gordon Mellor 4Gordon Mellor was the navigator of a Halifax bomber shot down over Belgium.  He was helped by local farmers and eventually reached Brussels where members of the Comet Line took control and escorted him to the Spanish border.  He joined a party that was taken over the Pyrenees into Spain and he eventually reached the UK.  He served the rest of the war as a navigation instructor.

The photograph is the one used on his false papers in France

To read full obituary clock HERE

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