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...
Islingtonian who died in the South African War, 1899-1903
Soweto is a township of Johannesburg, South Africa. At least 176 people were killed during a protest about the introduction of Afrikaans as the medium of instruction in local schools. Of these, 116...
Resident of Willesden who volunteered and died in the Anglo Boer War, 1899-1900.
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