Gordon Arthur Kidder (9 December 1914 – 29 March 1944), was a Royal Canadian Air Force officer, the navigator of a Vickers Wellington bomber, who was taken prisoner during the Second World War.

[5] On the evening of 13–14 October 1942, Kidder took off in a Wellington Mark III bomber (serial number BJ775) from RAF Warboys to bomb targets in the German port town of Kiel.

[8][9] Kidder was hospitalized by the Germans for treatment before being sent to Stalag Luft III in the province of Lower Silesia near the town of Sagan (now Żagań in Poland) just before Christmas of 1942 as prisoner of war No.

[10] The original escape plan teamed Kidder up with Dick Churchill to travel posing as Rumanian woodcutters but the final plan had him with deeply sun tanned "Tom"Thomas Kirby-Green,[11] who had been in charge of security for organizer Roger Bushells "escape committee", they would be posing as Spanish labourers.

[14] The pair cleared the tunnel exit before the alarm was sounded and made it to the local railway station where they were almost exposed when questioned by a Female member of the prison camp censor staff who involved a policeman who was convinced by their poor Spanish and broken German and let them go.

Held at Zlín prison they were the only prisoners interrogated physically and violently[17][18] The two escapers were taken away by the Zlín Gestapo in two cars which headed out onto the Breslau road and shot near Moravská Ostrava (today part of Ostrava), their bodies being cremated in the local crematorium there and urns returned to Stalag Luft III were marked with the date 29 March 1944 and the name of the town Mahrisch,[19][20][21][22] Kidder was one of the 50 escapers executed and murdered by the Gestapo.

[30] Post-war Czech investigators identified the participants in the murders of Kirby-Green and Gordon Kidder at Hrabuvka,[31] part of Ostrava, and notified their British opposite numbers on 2 December 1945.