THE GREAT ESCAPE, MARCH 1944

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From left to right: 1. Flying Officer Henry Birkland, Royal Canadian Air Force. 2. Flight Lieutenant Edward Gordon Brettell DFC, Royal Air Force. 3. Flight Lieutenant Leslie George Bull DFC, Royal Air Force. 4. Squadron Leader Roger Joyce Bushell, Royal Air Force. 5. Flight Lieutenant Michael James Casey, Royal Air Force. 6. Squadron Leader James Catanach DFC, Royal Australian Air Force. 7. Flight Lieutenant Arnold George Christensen, Royal New Zealand Air Force. 8. Flying Officer Dennis Herbert Cochran, Royal Air Force. 9. Squadron Leader Ian Kingston Cross DFC, Royal Air Force. 10. Sergeant Halldor Espelid, Royal Air Force (Norwegian). 11. Flight Lieutenant Brian Herbert Evans, Royal Air Force. 12. Lieutenant Nils Fuglesang, Royal Air Force (Norwegian). 13. Lieutenant Johannes Gouws, South African Air Force. 14. Flight Lieutenant William Jack Grisman, Royal Air Force. 15. Flight Lieutenant Alastair Gunn, Royal Air Force. 16. Warrant Officer Albert Horace Hake, Royal Australian Air Force. 17. Flight Lieutenant Charles Piers Hall, Royal Air Force. 18. Flight Lieutenant Anthony Ross Henzell Hayter, Royal Air Force. 19. Flight Lieutenant Edgar Spottiswoode Humphreys, Royal Air Force. 20. Flying Officer Gordon Arthur Kidder, Royal Canadian Air Force. 21. Flight Lieutenant Reginald Victor Kierath, Royal Australian Air Force. 22. Flight Lieutenant Antoni Kiewnarski, No. 305 Bomber Squadron, Polish Air Force. 23. Squadron Leader Thomas Gresham Kirby-Green, Royal Air Force. 24. Flying Officer Włodzimierz Adam Kolanowski, No. 301 Bomber Squadron, Polish Air Force. 25. Flying Officer Stanisław Król, No. 74 Fighter Squadron RAF and Polish Air Force.

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Photographic set of 25 images of Allied airmen (first 25 out of 50, in alphabetical order), escapees from Stalag Luft III in Sagan, recaptured and executed by Gestapo in March and April 1944 after failure of the Great Escape.

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Category: Photographs
Related period: Second World War (production), Second World War (content)
Creator: Unknown
Materials: whole: Nitrate
Catalogue number: HU 1591
Part of: MASSEY HERBERT MARTIN (AIR COMMODORE) COLLECTION

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