Dear All,

I am Allan Colin (known as Colin)MacLachlan's granddaughter & am over joyed to be reading your information that you have about him. He was the first man from Wolverhampton shot down & spent the duration of the war in various POW camps including Stalag Luft III of Great Escape & Wooden Horse fame.

I understood that he was shot down just outside Hanover and taken to a hospital there. We have photographs of the wreckage & of him holding a handkerchief to his badly burnt face as he walks away from it. I was also told that the German who shot him down visited him in hospital & they chatted; he'd studied at Cambridge & grandad had learnt German at school.

Cosford Air Museum have Grandad's uniform & various other items that may help you in your search for information, I know that there is a flight log of Grandad's too.

Thank you for remembering him.