Nicolas Tindal-Carill-Worsley

For the English translator, see Nicolas Tindal.

Nicolas Tindal

Group Captain Nicolas Tindal-Carill-Worsley RAF (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, 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, 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, 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), Anthony (m Penelope Railton) and Ralph (m Caroline Villiers-Stuart).

See also

• Darwin–Wedgwood family
• Tyndall

External links

• Obituary, Irish Times, 18 February 2006

Persondata
Name	Tindal-Carill-Worsley, Nicolas
Alternative names	Tindal, Nicolas
Short description	British World War II bomber pilot
Date of birth	1911
Place of birth
Date of death	28 January 2006
Place of death	County Donegal