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.
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Roger Joyce Bushell
We have never seen so many Cecils, Cyrils and Cuthberts on a war memorial, le...
Resident of Willesden who volunteered and died in the Anglo Boer War, 1899-1900.
HMS Monarch, Royal Marine Light Infantry, South Africa.
This took place near the police station in the South African township of Sharpeville in Transvaal (today part of Gauteng). After a day of demonstrations against pass laws (these were an internal pa...
Resident of Willesden who volunteered and died in the Anglo Boer War, 1899-1900.
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