Roger Bushell, South African-English soldier and pilot (died 1944)

Roger Bushell

Royal Air Force officer

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…