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Tony Hayter
Anthony Ross Henzell Hayter (20 May 1920 – 6 April 1944), known as Tony, was a Royal Air Force Vickers Wellington bomber pilot who was taken prisoner during the Second World War. He took part in the 'Great Escape' from Stalag Luft III in March 1944, but was one of the men recaptured and subsequently shot by the ''Gestapo''.
==Pre-war life==
Hayter was born in Farnborough, Hampshire the son of Lieutenant Colonel Herbert Roche Hayter, D.S.O., and Elsie Helen Evelyn Winterton Hayter.〔(Commonwealth War Graves Commission – Anthony Ross Henzell Hayter )〕 His father who had seen extensive military service in the Second Boer War 1899-1902 and in World War I retired when he was aged two and the family settled at Burghclere Grange a large rectory and small farm in Berkshire. With his brothers and sisters he grew up in a sporting atmosphere particularly enjoying swimming and yachting. In 1929 an opportunity fly in his step-brother's bi-plane aircraft from a field near their home instilled a love of flight in him.〔Read (2012), p.246〕〔Vance (2000), p.80〕 He was educated at Marlborough College from 1933 to 1938 and graduated determined to join the Royal Air Force. Late in 1938 he was accepted for a short service commission and after basic training commenced his flight training in March 1939. On 13 May 1939 having earned his pilots aircrew brevet he was commissioned acting pilot officer. By the outbreak of war in September 1939 he was with the Advanced Training School at RAF Hullavington about to convert to Bristol Blenheim light bombers.〔Vance (2000), p.81〕〔Read (2012), p.246-247〕
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