• Squadron Leader Roger Joyce Bushell (30 August 1910 – 29 March 1944) was a South African in the British Royal Air Force aviator. He masterminded the famous...
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  • 2014 Mickey Bushell (b. 1990), British paralympic athlete Nellie Bushell (1884-1948), Irish textile artist and political activist Roger Bushell (1910–1944)...
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    so-called Great Escape—of March 1944, was conceived by Squadron Leader Roger Bushell of the Royal Air Force (RAF) and was authorised by the senior British...
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    RAF Squadron Leader Roger Bartlett ("Big X"), the head of the escape committee, based on the real-life exploits of Roger Bushell. It was his first appearance...
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    committee with other members of the staff, including Squadron Leader Roger Bushell and Lt Cmdr Jimmy Buckley RN. Buckley was a pilot in the Fleet Air Arm...
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  • escaping. Much of the book is focused on Royal Air Force Squadron Leader Roger Bushell, also known as the nicknamed "Big X", including his capture, early escape...
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  • Lewis and Bill Ash. Richard Attenborough's Sqn Ldr Roger Bartlett RAF, "Big X", was based on Roger Bushell, the South African-born British POW who was the...
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  • Hamilton-Baillie 65 65 0 12 June 1943 Delousing break Stalag Luft III British RAF Roger Bushell 32 26 0 July (?) 1943 Hydekrug tunnel Stalag Luft VI British William...
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    Hall, feminist writer Shelley Court, No.56. Flat No.1: Squadron Leader Roger Bushell RAF (1910–1944). South African-born British Auxiliary Air Force pilot...
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    postmaster decided to abbreviate the name to Hermanus. The parents of Roger Bushell, leader of the "Great Escape" (the escape by Allied airmen from Stalag...
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  • Anthony Denison as Lieutenant Mike Corey Ian McShane as Squadron Leader Roger Bushell Charles Haid as Sergeant MacKenzie Donald Pleasence as Dr. Absalon Michael...
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    The Book of Beauty of Cecil Beaton. In 1934, she met war-time hero Roger Bushell and they fell in love. Curzon's father did not approve and forced her...
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    poem The Faerie Queene Lancelot Andrewes, English bishop and translator Roger Williams, Baptist theologian, founder of Rhode Island William Pitt the Younger...
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  • and together with other members of the permanent staff, including Roger Bushell, Jimmy Buckley and Johnnie Dodge, he had been active in construction...
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  • arrived at the camp with Squadron Leader Roger Bushell, who had also been shot down near Calais on 23 May 1940. Bushell also became a member of the permanent...
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  • McShera as Wallis Simpson Rich Hall as Wally Floody Dustin Demri-Burns as Roger Bushell Jamie Laing as a Prisoner 12 "Episode Four" 2 March 2016 (2016-03-02)...
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    Claude Auchinleck Field marshal Sir Geoffrey Baker Squadron leader Roger Bushell (1910-1944), mastermind of the "Great Escape" Military historian Sir...
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  • that the Gestapo had liquidation plans for Roger Bushell if he were caught escaping again. Dowse warned Bushell, who chose to ignore the warning. During...
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  • (now Żagań, Poland). There, he joined the "X-Organization", headed by Roger Bushell (codenamed "Big-X"), who put Floody in charge of digging tunnels and...
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    Stalag Luft III, Żagań, Nazi Germany (now Poland) 1944 76 102 m Led by Roger Bushell during World War II. The story was made into the 1963 film The Great...
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    a bare-faced liar. Hastings was assisted in defending the pilots by Roger Bushell, who, like Malan, had been born in South Africa. The court ruled the...
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    dream". Wellum's first commanding officer was Roger Bushell, (later immortalised in The Great Escape). Bushell was shot down and captured almost immediately...
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  • Major-General Douglas Wimberley, British Divisional Commander in World War II Roger Bushell, Mastermind of the Great Escape Lieutenant Colonel Sir Wolseley Haig...
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  • Virginia Lee Burton, American author and illustrator (d. 1968) 1910 – Roger Bushell, South African-English soldier and pilot (d. 1944) 1912 – Edward Mills...
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    of WWI, was a civilian during WWII when imprisoned by the Japanese Roger Bushell – South African-born RAF Squadron Leader. Masterminded the "Great Escape"...
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    born and raised in Springs, and attended Springs Boys' High School. Roger Joyce Bushell, RAF (30 August 1910 – 29 March 1944), a Springs-born British lawyer...
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    guitarist shared recorded interviews with his "Uncle Bill". Paul Brickhill Roger Bushell Cooper, Charlie (3 January 2013). "Alfie Fripp, oldest surviving and...
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    significantly from that of Ralph's. On 24 March 1944, Squadron leader Roger Bushell organized the escape from Stalag Luft III, where 3 POWs made it home...
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  • Poland. In the new camp, Jimmy Buckley and Roger Bushell continued the 'X Organisation'. Buckley, not Bushell, was the 'Big X' in March 1942. Parker was...
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  • Great Escaper, the life and death of Roger Bushell. Hodder and Stoughton. p. 50. ISBN 978-1-4447-6066-8. Roger Bushell was a friend, who was encouraged by...
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