Roger Bushell information

Squadron Leader Roger Joyce Bushell (30 August 1910 – 29 March 1944) was a South African RAF aviator. He masterminded the "Great Escape" from Stalag Luft...

2014 Mickey Bushell (b. 1990), British paralympic athlete Nellie Bushell (1884-1948), Irish textile artist and political activist Roger Bushell (1910–1944)...

so-called Great Escape – of March 1944, was conceived by Squadron Leader Roger Bushell of the Royal Air Force (RAF) and was authorised by the senior British...

committee with other members of the staff, including Squadron Leader Roger Bushell and Lt Cmdr Jimmy Buckley RN. Buckley was a pilot in the Fleet Air Arm...

arrived at the camp with Squadron Leader Roger Bushell, who had also been shot down near Calais on 23 May 1940. Bushell also became a member of the permanent...

RAF Squadron Leader Roger Bartlett ("Big X"), the head of the escape committee, based on the real-life exploits of Roger Bushell. It was his first appearance...

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postmaster decided to abbreviate the name to Hermanus. The parents of Roger Bushell, leader of the "Great Escape" (the escape by Allied airmen from Stalag...

and together with other members of the permanent staff, including Roger Bushell, Jimmy Buckley and Johnnie Dodge, he had been active in construction...

Hall, feminist writer Shelley Court, No.56. Flat No.1: Squadron Leader Roger Bushell RAF (1910–1944). South African-born British Auxiliary Air Force pilot...

The Book of Beauty of Cecil Beaton. In 1934, she met war-time hero Roger Bushell and they fell in love. Curzon's father did not approve and forced her...

of WWI, was a civilian during WWII when imprisoned by the Japanese Roger Bushell – South African-born RAF Squadron Leader. Masterminded the "Great Escape"...

Stalag Luft III, Żagań, Nazi Germany (now Poland) 1944 76 102 m Led by Roger Bushell during World War II. The story was made into the 1963 film The Great...

a bare-faced liar. Hastings was assisted in defending the pilots by Roger Bushell, who, like Malan, had been born in South Africa. The court ruled the...

(now Żagań, Poland). There, he joined the "X-Organization", headed by Roger Bushell (codenamed "Big-X"), who put Floody in charge of digging tunnels and...

Major-General Douglas Wimberley, British Divisional Commander in World War II Roger Bushell, Mastermind of the Great Escape Lieutenant Colonel Sir Wolseley Haig...

to Day, also at the camp were the escape-obsessed Jimmy Buckley and Roger Bushell. It was from here that Dodge made his second escape attempt. A tunnel...

that the Gestapo had liquidation plans for Roger Bushell if he were caught escaping again. Dowse warned Bushell, who chose to ignore the warning. During...

competition extended to snowboarders. Notable past competitors include Roger Bushell who captained the Cambridge side and won the slalom event in 1931, and...

dream". Wellum's first commanding officer was Roger Bushell, (later immortalised in The Great Escape). Bushell was shot down and captured almost immediately...

Virginia Lee Burton, American author and illustrator (d. 1968) 1910 – Roger Bushell, South African-English soldier and pilot (d. 1944) 1912 – Edward Mills...

He was detained at Stalag Luft III with his former defence lawyer Roger Bushell. In 1944 he was repatriated, having convinced the Germans and the repatriation...