Sydney Dowse in RAF service prior to becoming a POW
Nickname(s)
The Laughing Boy
Born
21 November 1918 Hammersmith United Kingdom
Died
10 April 2008 (aged 89) Hampshire, United Kingdom
Allegiance
British Empire
Service/branch
Royal Air Force
Years of service
1937–1946
Rank
Flight lieutenant
Unit
No 608 Squadron No 1 Photographic Reconnaissance Unit
Battles/wars
World War II
Awards
Military Cross mentioned in despatches
Flight Lieutenant Sydney Hastings Dowse MC (21 November 1918 – 10 April 2008) was a Royal Air Force pilot who became a prisoner of war and survived The Great Escape during the Second World War.
Flight Lieutenant Sydney Hastings Dowse MC (21 November 1918 – 10 April 2008) was a Royal Air Force pilot who became a prisoner of war and survived The...
Dowsing is a type of divination employed in attempts to locate ground water, buried metals or ores, gemstones, oil, claimed radiations (radiesthesia)...
escapees were sent to Oflag IV-C at Colditz Castle, and four (Harry Day, SydneyDowse, Bertram James, and Johnnie Dodge) were sent to Sachsenhausen concentration...
Neudegg. Wing Commander Harry Day, Flight Lieutenants Bertram James and SydneyDowse, RAF pilots, who had escaped during The Great Escape from Stalag Luft...
Brickhill, The Great Escape From interviews with Walter Morrison and SydneyDowse, two former inmates of Stalag Luft III, for the documentary film, For...
(2001–2003), and Crossbench peer Richard Hutton Davies CB, army officer SydneyDowse MC, POW escapee H. Dormer Legge, RAF and Army officer and philatelist...
he was later joined by Jimmy James, Harry Day and Flight Lieutenant SydneyDowse. James Wernham, together with 49 other recaptured escapers, was murdered...
Sachsenhausen, accompanied by Jack Churchill, Harry Day, Johnnie Dodge and SydneyDowse using small cutlery knives to dig an escape tunnel over 110 metres long...
Sara Dowse (born 12 November 1938) is an American-born Australian feminist, author, critic, social commentator, and visual artist. Her novels include...
This is a list of Sydney Swans players who have made one or more appearance in the Australian Football League, known as the Victorian Football League until...
Professional Baseball League from 1943 to 1949, in LaGrange, Ohio (d. 1981); SydneyDowse, British air force officer, member of the escape crew from German POW...
Fogler and Topher Grace. Set in the 1980s, the film was directed by Michael Dowse and released in March 2011. Take Me Home Tonight was a box office flop,...
"jindawallanews". Freepages.rootsweb.com. Retrieved 13 March 2019. Wollumbin Dowsing Archived 29 January 2010 at the Wayback Machine Heritage, corporateName=Office...
following year she starred in the romantic comedy What If directed by Michael Dowse starring opposite Daniel Radcliffe. The film premiered at the 2013 Toronto...
Rob Dowsing (born 3 September 1947) is a former Australian rules footballer who played with Melbourne and South Melbourne in the Victorian Football League...
internationally. Post & Rail Furniture was started by Bruce Dowse and Peter Ryan in 1973 in Sydney, Australia. They created various styles of Australian furniture...
Blankenship visit a treeless area called "the bald spot" where Dan uses dowsing to find hidden tunnels. The area is excavated to a depth of 12 ft (4 m)...
The Independent. Retrieved 16 October 2022. Dowse, Sara (15 October 2014). "The real Julia | Sara Dowse". Inside Story. Retrieved 16 October 2022. Smyth...
objects. Lower Hutt, New Zealand: The Dowse Art Museum. ISBN 0958341451. "Wunderrūma: New Zealand Jewellery". The Dowse Art Museum. Archived from the original...
as manager of The Adelphi George Willoughby (full name George Willoughby Dowse), who made a great success of it. Willoughby, with Arthur Bernard Davies...