OBITUARIES OF ROYAL AIR FORCES POWS
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Best, Jack - Colditz Glider o 26.4.00 The Times Bethell, Tony - Canada's last Great Escaper o 3.3.04 The Globe and Mail, Toronto Birtle, Richard - Stalag Luft III o 5.4.12 Daily Mail Blair, Norman - Stalag 357, Long March o 1.7.13 Dundee Courier Brickhill, Paul - author o 26.4.94 The Times Brodrick, Les - Stalag Luft III o 12.4.13 D Tel Bruce, Dominic, OBE MC AFM - Colditz o 3.3.00 The Times Buckham, Bob - Stalag Luft III o 24.2.04 D Tel Cassie, Alex - Great Escape document forger o 21.4.12 NY Times Clark, Lt Gen Albert P USAF Great Escape team d8 Mar 2010 o 15.4.10 The Gazette Crawley, Aidan - author, tv, MP o 4.11.93 The Times Day, Sqn Ldr Frank - Stalag Luft III o 16.7.08 D Tel Dowling, Eric - Great Escape team art 6.8.08
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The TimesDeans, JAG ('Dixie')
A remarkable leader of POWs and a key intelligence coordinator; a founder member and first President of the RAF Ex-POW Associationd 18.2.89 compiled by the editor Fancy, John d16 Sep 2008 - Tunnelling to Freedom (1957); Flights of Fancy (1986). o 3.10.08 D Tel Flinn, Francis - Colditz o 6.12.13 The Times Floody, Wallace - tunnelling expert o 27.9.89 The Times Fordyce, Bill - Australia's last Great Escaper o 20.2.08 Sydney Morning Herald Fripp, Alfie - early POW, Stalag Luft III o 3.1.13 Guardian Gibb, Matthew - Great Escape penguin o 11.5.08 The Times Gnys, Wladyslaw o 22.3.00 The Times Goss, The Very Reverend Tom - 3 years in Changi o 20.12.97 D Tel Grant, Cy Flt Lt - singer, actor: Stalag Luft III o 15.2.10 D Tel Harrison, Wilfred - Stalag Luft III Aircrew Remembered o 3.2.11 The Times Hodgkinson, Air Chief Marshal Sir Derek d29 Jan 2010 o 6.3.10 D Tel Ingle, Group Captain Alec - Sagan & Luckenwalde o 31.7.99 D Tel Jackson, Norman VC - SLIII o 30.3.94 The Times James, Sqn Ldr BA Jimmy MC- Great Escaper, and got out of Sachsenhausen o 22.1.08
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IndependentJensen, G/C Frank, CBE DFC* AFC AE o 24.12.99 The Times Kayll, Wg Cdr Joe - Oflag XXIB & Sagan o 27.10.00 The Times Kellett, Air Cdre Richard, CBE DFC AFC o 20.1.90 The Times Lamason, Phil DFC* RNZAF - SBO Buchenwald o 31.5.12 D Tel Lees, Alex d22 Apr 2009 o 29.4.09 D Tel MacDonnell of Glengarry, Air Cdre Donald CBE DFC o 16.6.99 The Times Maguire, AM Sir Harold KCB DSO OBE o 16.2.01 The Times Maskell, Eric - the key aerodynamics for Concorde o 31.10.89 The Times Maw, Roger - designer of the Wooden Horse o 8.9.92 The Times Nelson, Bob - Great Escaper o 11.9.99 D Tel Plunkett, Desmond - Stalag Luft III, copying system for Great Escape o 20.2.02 D Tel Robinson, Professor Douglas - acoustics expert, POW in Singapore o 18.9.99 D Tel Saxelby, G/C Clive, CBE DFC AFC* o 30.4.97 The Times Stapleton, Gerald DFC DFC(NL) d 13.4.10 BoB Mem London Starkey, Dick - Stalag Luft III, A Lancaster Pilot's Impression on Germany o 6.1.14 Daily Express Stone, Frank - Stalag Luft III o 17.10.13 Daily Mirror Strong, Air Cdre DM 'Dim’, CB AFC - Adjutant N Compound Stalag Luft III o 7.9.11 D Tel Tonder, Ivo - Czech Great Escaper o 8.5.95 The Times Van Wymeersch, Raymond - Great Escaper o 14.6.00 by Ian Le Sueur Yeomans, Wg Cdr John Alan - Fallingbostel, Long March: d 1 Sep 2013 o Sep 13 Speers Funeral Chapel Younger, Cal - Stalag Luft III, No Flight from the Cage, editor of The Kriegie
Apage for Cal based on his Order of Service has been produced with the help of his family and friendso 3.2.14
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The Timeslast updated 7 Feb 14: 9 Jan 19 (listing to be updated so in the meantime the Google search results link has been added)