 Roger Bushell in his RAF uniform shortly before his capture. Royal Air Force Squadron Leader Roger Joyce Bushell (August 30, 1910 - March 29, 1944) was a South African born Auxiliary Air Force pilot in Britain who organized and led the famous escape from the Nazi prisoner of war camp, Stalag Luft III. The escape was later used as the basis for the film The Great Escape. The character played by Richard Attenborough, Roger Bartlett, is modeled after Roger Bushell. B.A. James who participated in the Great Escape, has commented on Attenbοrough's accurate portrayal of Bushell's personality and mannerisms. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (264x669, 29 KB) Summary http://www. ...
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The Great Escape, written by James Clavell, W.R. Burnett, and Walter Newman (uncredited), and directed by John Sturges is a popular 1963 World War II film, based on a true story about Allied prisoners of war with a record for escaping from German prisoner-of-war camps. ...
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Birth and early life
Bushell was born in Springs, Transvaal, South Africa on 30 August 1910 to Benjamin Daniel and Dorothy Wingate White. Bushell was educated at home, Park Town School, and then Wellington College in England. In 1929, Bushell matriculated to Pembroke College, Cambridge to read law. The word spring has several meanings: spring (device), a common mechanical part. ...
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1929 (MCMXXIX) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ...
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Bushell was keen to pursue non-academic interests from an early age. Roger Bushell excelled in athletics and represented Cambridge in skiing. A sport consists of a physical activity or skill carried out with a recreational purpose: for competition, for self-enjoyment, to attain excellence, for the development of a skill, or some combination of these. ...
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Skiing One of Bushell's passions and talents was skiing: in the early 1930s he was declared the fastest Briton in the Male Downhill category. He even had a black run named after him in Switzerland. This naming was in recognition of the fact that he had set the fastest time to complete the run. The 1930s (years from 1930–1939) were described as an abrupt shift to more radical and conservative lifestyles, as countries were struggling to find a solution to the Great Depression, also known in Europe as the World Depression. ...
At an event in Canada Bushell had an accident in which one of his skis narrowly missed his left eye, leaving him with a gash in the corner of it. Although Bushell recovered from this accident he still had a dark drooping in his left eye due to scarring from his stitches.
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RAF Auxiliary and Legal Career Despite his sporting prospects, one of Bushell's primary wishes was to fly, and in 1932 he joined the 601 RAF Auxiliary, which was often referred to as "The Millionaires' Mob" because of the number of wealthy young men who paid their way solely to learn how to fly during training days (often at weekends). Year 1932 (MCMXXXII) was a leap year starting on Friday (the link will take you to a full 1932 calendar). ...
Although Bushell was pursuing a career with the RAF he wasn't hampered in his attempts to become a barrister. From the outset of his legal career many commented on his ability as a lawyer, particularly in criminal defense. After a while, Bushell was appointed to military cases in prosecuting RAF personnel charged with various offenses. These often involved pilots charged with dangerous flying. This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ...
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 From left: Squadron Leader Roger Bushell, Leutnant Eberhardt (German Security), and Paddy Byrne (fellow POW)
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Regular Military Career Roger was the Commanding Officer of 92 Squadron when he was shot down on 23 May 1940. He became a POW who eventually ended up at Stalag Luft III in (then) Sagan, Germany. He became known as "Big X" of the camp escape committee and was the mastermind behind the mass escape that occurred on the evening of 24 March 1944. Roger and his partner Bernard Scheidhauer escaped along with 74 other men. He was captured the next day and executed three days later by Emil Schulz of the Gestapo. Those alleged to have carried out these executions - a violation of the Third Geneva Convention - were later tried and executed by the Allies. This wartime atrocity was termed the "Keitel Order", the name given to the shooting of the 50 POWs. Hitler originally furiously demanded that all 76 be executed. May 23 is the 143rd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (144th in leap years). ...
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Geneva Convention definition A prisoner of war (POW) is a soldier, sailor, airman, or marine who is imprisoned by an enemy power during or immediately after an armed conflict. ...
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Generalfeldmarschall Wilhelm Keitel Wilhelm Bodewin Johann Gustav Keitel (September 22, 1882 - October 16, 1946) was a German Field Marshal (Generalfeldmarschall) and a senior military leader during World War II. Early life and career He was born in Helmscherode near Hanover, Germany, the son of Carl Keitel, a middle-class landowner. ...
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See also The Great Escape, written by James Clavell, W.R. Burnett, and Walter Newman (uncredited), and directed by John Sturges is a popular 1963 World War II film, based on a true story about Allied prisoners of war with a record for escaping from German prisoner-of-war camps. ...
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Group Captain Sir Douglas Robert Steuart Bader, CBE, DSO and Bar, DFC and Bar, FRAeS, DL, RAF (21 February 1910–5 September 1982); surname pronounced ) was a successful fighter pilot in the Royal Air Force during the Second World War. ...
Jens Müller in capture in Stalag Luft III. Photo courtesy Jonathan F. Vance, Canada Research Chair, The University of Western Ontario. ...
Per Bergsland was a Norwegian POW in the German POW camp called Stalag Luft III. In the event that has later been know as The Great Escape, he, and fellow Norwegian Jens Muller, were among the 76 prisoners of war that managed to escape the camp. ...
Further reading The Great Escape by Paul Brickhill ISBN 0-304-35687-5
Stalag Luft III: The Secret Story by Arthur Durand, Ph.D.
A Gallant Company by Jonathan Vance, Ph.D.
External links - Biography from Pegasus-one.org
- PBS.org Story of the Great Escape
- Roger Bushell website
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