1944

Roger Joyce Bushell

War dead, WW2 i

Commemorated on a memorial as having died in WW2.

Member of Lincoln's Inn.

Squadron Leader Roger Joyce Bushell was a South African aviator in the British Royal Air Force. He masterminded the famous "Great Escape" from Stalag Luft III in March 1944, but was one of the 50 escapees to be recaptured and subsequently shot and murdered by the Nazi German Gestapo secret police.

Bushell was the basis for the character "Roger Bartlett" in the film The Great Escape (1963), played by actor Richard Attenborough.

Source: Wikipedia.

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Roger Joyce Bushell

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