On Runnymede Memorial is the name of 1532521 Sergeant William Arthur Taylor serving with 90 Squadron Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve who died 25/06/1943.

The son of Arthur Pickering Taylor and Ida Taylor and the husband of Elizabeth Taylor, of Seaham, Co. Durham.

William was born July 18th 1914 in the Weardale District. He married Elizabeth Foggin in Spring 1939. In 1939 his parents were living at 66 Grantham Avenue Seaham. Arthur born 1887 was a Builder Contractor and Ida nee Proud had been born in 1889.

Sgt. Taylor was serving with 90 Sqdn. He was a crew member of Stirling I BK628 WP-G which took off from West Wickham on a mission to Wuppertal. The aircraft was lost without trace.

This was a night when 35 aircraft were lost, with an average crew membership of 7.
Royal Air Force Bomber Command Losses of the Second World War: 1943;W.R. Chorley; 1996; Midland Counties Publications; ISBN 0 904597 90 3

Tony Hibberd has offered the following:

Stirling BK628 WP-G had departed Wratting Common at 2310 for Ops Wuppertal. It was intercepted at 2500M over the North Sea, 25km W of Schouwen by a Night-Fighter capained by Nacht Jagd Experten Lt Heinz Struning at 0302 for his 32nd Abschuss
Nacht Jagd Combat Archive 1943 Part 2 Dr Theo Boiten

William Arthur Taylor is remembered at Seaham on S117.10,  S117.13 and S117.35