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Gordon Brettell
Birth name
Edward Gordon Brettell
Born
(1915-03-19)19 March 1915 Chertsey, Surrey
Died
29 March 1944(1944-03-29) (aged 29) Danzig
Buried
Poznan Old Garrison Cemetery, Poland
Allegiance
United Kingdom
Service/branch
Royal Air Force
Years of service
1939–1944
Rank
Flight lieutenant
Service number
61053
Unit
No. 92 Squadron RAF No. 133 (Eagle) Squadron RAF
Battles/wars
World War II
Channel Front (POW)
Awards
Distinguished Flying Cross Mention in despatches
Edward Gordon Brettell DFC (19 March 1915 – 29 March 1944), known as Gordon Brettell, was a British Spitfire fighter 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 re-captured and subsequently shot by the Gestapo.
Edward GordonBrettell DFC (19 March 1915 – 29 March 1944), known as GordonBrettell, was a British Spitfire fighter pilot who was taken prisoner during...
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James GordonBrettell (born 19 December 1962) is an English former first-class cricketer. Brettell was born at Woking in December 1962. He was educated...
England. One of the British pilots taken prisoner, Flight Lieutenant GordonBrettell, was later to be shot as one of the escapees in The Great Escape from...
as "the Great Escape". Travelling in a group of four escapees with GordonBrettell, Romualdas Marcinkus and Henri Picard, all posing as French and Lithuanian...
artist he was one of the fifty document forgers working alongside GordonBrettell, Romualdas Marcinkus and Tim Walenn, and modelled perfect replica German...
committee in Stalag Luft III, it was inhabited by Alex Cassie, Tim Walenn, GordonBrettell, Des Plunkett and Tony Hayter, three forgers and two mapmakers. Hayter...
in his group posing as Lithuanians – Tim Walenn, Henri Picard and GordonBrettell – managed to reach a train heading towards Danzig (now Gdansk, Poland)...
Basketball in 2003 while retaining the championship series. Born: GordonBrettell, British air force officer, member of No. 92 Squadron and of the escape...
Degas", in The Book of Art Volume 7. New York: Grolier Incorporated :41. Brettell, Richard R.; McCullagh, Suzanne Folds (1984). Degas in The Art Institute...
Gordon West (24 April 1943 – 10 June 2012) was an English professional football goalkeeper. He won three international caps in a career that included a...
Online. doi:10.1093/gao/9781884446054.article.T059077. ISBN 9781884446054. Brettell, Hayes Tucker & Henderson Lee 2009, pp. 63. Januszczak 1985, p. 304. House...
original on March 6, 2014. Retrieved February 27, 2014. Wilchins, Dan; Brettell, Karen (April 16, 2010). "Factbox: How Goldman's ABACUS deal worked". No...
R. Alan (1947). "Inca Gender Relations: from household to empire". In Brettell, Caroline; Sargent, Carolyn F. (eds.) Gender in cross-cultural perspective...
Archived from the original on July 20, 2016. Retrieved December 30, 2015. Brettell, Karen (December 19, 2008). "GM, Ford default swaps fall on Bush bailout...
The Life of Judy Garland. Random House. p. 422. ISBN 978-0-385-33515-7. Brettell, Richar R. (1999). Modern Art, 1851-1929: Capitalism and Representation...
Global Information
United Kingdom
Royal Air Force