Roger Bushell
Squadron Leader Roger Joyce Bushell was a South African RAF aviator. He masterminded the "Great Escape" from Stalag Luft III in 1944, but was one of the 50 escapees to be recaptured and subsequently murdered by the Gestapo. Roger Bushell, South African-English soldier and pilot (d. 1944)
30 August 1910
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