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Name: Roger Joyce Bushell. Date of Birth: 30/8/1910. Place of Birth: Transvaal, South...

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Reference WO 416/47/197
Date [1939-1945]
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Name: Roger Joyce Bushell.

Date of Birth: 30/8/1910.

Place of Birth: Transvaal, South Africa.

Service: Royal Air Force.

Rank: Squadron Leader.

Regiment/Unit/Squadron: [unspecified].

Service Number: 90120.

Date of Capture: 23 May 1940.

Theatre of Capture: Boulogne.

Camp Name/Number: Stalag Luft 3 Sagan.

PoW number: 621.

Date of Death: 29/3/1944.

Number of Photographs: 1.

Number of Fingerprints: 1.

Number of X-rays: 0.

Number of Cards: 3.

[Participant in the 'Great Escape' from Stalag Luft III on the night of 24/25 March 1944.]

Held by The National Archives, Kew
Legal status Public Record(s)
Access conditions Open on Transfer
Closure Status Open Document, Open Description
Record opening date 03 December 2014

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