List of Allied airmen from the Great Escape

The "Great Escape" was a World War II mass escape from the German prisoner-of-war camp Stalag Luft III.

It was the basis of The Great Escape, a book by Paul Brickhill describing the escape and The Great Escape, a film based on the book.

Memorial to "The Fifty" Allied airmen executed after the "Great Escape"

Executed by Gestapo	Recaptured but not executed	Home run

Rank	Name	Service	Notes
Sergeant	Per Bergsland	RAF	Home run via Stettin, now Szczecin, ^[1] (Norwegian)
Flight Lieutenant	R. Anthony Bethell	RAF	^[2]
Flying Officer	Henry "Hank" Birkland	RCAF	Executed by Gestapo, ^[3]
Flight Lieutenant	Edward Gordon Brettell DFC	RAF	Executed by Gestapo, ^[4]^[5]^[6]
Flight Lieutenant	Leslie C. J. Broderick	RAF	^[7]
Flight Lieutenant	Leslie George Bull DFC	RAF	Executed by Gestapo, ^[8]
Squadron Leader	Roger Joyce Bushell	RAF	Executed by Gestapo, ^[9]^[10]
Flight Lieutenant	Bill Cameron	RCAF
Flight Lieutenant	Michael James Casey	RAF	Executed by Gestapo, ^[11]^[12]
Squadron Leader	James Catanach DFC	RAAF	Executed by Gestapo, ^[13]^[14]
Flight Lieutenant	Arnold Christensen	RNZAF	Executed by Gestapo, ^[15]
Flight Lieutenant	Richard S. A. "Dick" Churchill	RAF	^[16]
Flying Officer	Dennis Herbert Cochran	RAF	Executed by Gestapo, ^[17]
Squadron Leader	Ian Kingston Pembroke Cross DFC	RAF	Executed by Gestapo, ^[18]
Wing Commander	Harry Melville Arbuthnot "Wings" Day	RAF	^[19]
Major	Johnnie Dodge	British Army
Flight Lieutenant	Sydney Dowse	RAF
Flight Lieutenant	Bedrich "Freddie" Dvorak	RAF
Sergeant	Halldor Espelid	RAF	Executed by Gestapo (Norwegian)
Flight Lieutenant	Brian Herbert Evans	RAF	Executed by Gestapo, ^[20]
Lieutenant	Nils Jørgen Fuglesang	RAF	Executed by Gestapo, ^[21] (Norwegian)
Lieutenant	Johannes Gouws	SAAF	Executed by Gestapo
Flight Lieutenant	Bernard "Pop" Green	RAF
Flight Lieutenant	William Jack Grisman	RAF	Executed by Gestapo, ^[22]
Flight Lieutenant	Alistair Donald Mackintosh Gunn	RAF	Executed by Gestapo, ^[23]
Warrant Officer	Albert Horace Hake	RAAF	Executed by Gestapo, ^[24]
Flight Lieutenant	Charles Piers Hall	RAF	Executed by Gestapo, ^[25]
Flight Lieutenant	Anthony Ross Henzell Hayter	RAF	Executed by Gestapo, ^[26]^[27]
Flight Lieutenant	Edgar Spottiswoode Humphreys	RAF	Executed by Gestapo, ^[28]^[29]
Pilot Officer	Bertram "Jimmy" James	RAF	^[30]
Flying Officer	Gordon Arthur Kidder	RCAF	Executed by Gestapo, ^[31]
Flight Lieutenant	Reginald "Rusty" Kierath	RAAF	Executed by Gestapo, ^[32]^[33]
Flight Lieutenant	Antoni Kiewnarski	PAF	Executed by Gestapo, ^[34] (Polish)
Squadron Leader	Thomas Gresham Kirby-Green	RAF	Executed by Gestapo, ^[35]^[36]
Flying Officer	Wlodzimierz A. Kolanowski	PAF	Executed by Gestapo (Polish)
Flying Officer	Stanislaw Z. "Danny" Krol	PAF	Executed by Gestapo (Polish)
Flight Lieutenant	Patrick Wilson Langford	RCAF	Executed by Gestapo, ^[37]^[38]
Flight Lieutenant	Roy B. Langlois	RAF	^[39]
Flight Lieutenant	Thomas Barker Leigh	RAF	Executed by Gestapo, ^[40]^[41]
Flight Lieutenant	James Leslie Robert "Cookie" Long	RAF	Executed by Gestapo, ^[42]^[43]
Flight Lieutenant	Romas "René" Marcinkus	RAF	Executed by Gestapo, ^[44] (Lithuanian)
Flight Lieutenant	H. C. "Johnny" Marshall	RAF
Flight Lieutenant	Alistair T. McDonald	RAF
Lieutenant	Clement Aldwyn Neville McGarr	SAAF	Executed by Gestapo, ^[45]
Flight Lieutenant	George Edward McGill	RCAF	Executed by Gestapo, ^[46]
Flight Lieutenant	Harold John Milford	RAF	Executed by Gestapo, ^[47]^[48]
Flying Officer	Jerzy T. Mondschein	RAF	Executed by Gestapo, ^[49] (Polish)
Second Lieutenant	Jens Müller	RAF	Home run via Stettin, now Szczecin (Norwegian)
Lieutenant	Alastair D. Neely	Royal Navy
Flight Lieutenant	T. R. Nelson	RAF
Flight Lieutenant	A. Keith Ogilvie	RAF
Flying Officer	Kazimierz Pawluk	RAF	Executed by Gestapo, ^[50] (Polish)
Flight Lieutenant	Henri Albert Picard	RAF	Executed by Gestapo, ^[51]^[52] (Belgian)
Flight Lieutenant	Desmond Lancelot Plunkett	RAF
Flying Officer	Porokoru Patapu "Johnny" Pohe	RNZAF	Executed by Gestapo, ^[53]^[54]
Lieutenant	Douglas A. Poynter	Royal Navy
Pilot Officer	Paul G. Royle	RAF
Lieutenant	Bernard W. M. Scheidhauer	FFAF	Executed by Gestapo, ^[55]
Flight Lieutenant	Michael Shand	RAF	^[56]
Pilot Officer	Sotiris "Nick" Skanzikas	RHAF	Executed by Gestapo, ^[57] (Greek)
Lieutenant	Rupert J. Stevens	SAAF	Executed by Gestapo
Flying Officer	Robert Campbell Stewart	RAF	Executed by Gestapo, ^[58]^[59]
Flying Officer	John Gifford Stower	RAF	Executed by Gestapo, ^[60]^[61]
Flying Officer	Denys Oliver Street	RAF	Executed by Gestapo, ^[62]^[63]
Flight Lieutenant	Cyril Douglas Swain	RAF	Executed by Gestapo, ^[64]
Flight Lieutenant	Alfred B. Thompson	RCAF	^[65]
Flying Officer	Pawel "Peter" Tobolski	PAF	Executed by Gestapo (Polish)
Flight Lieutenant	Ivo P. Tonder	RAF
Squadron Leader	Leonard Henry Trent	RNZAF
Flight Lieutenant	Arnost "Wally" Valenta	RAF	Executed by Gestapo, ^[66] (Czechoslovak)
Flight Lieutenant	Bram van der Stok	RAF	Home run to Spain, the only one to return to Britain and rejoin the battle with the RAF.
Flight Lieutenant	Gilbert William "Tim" Walenn	RAF	Executed by Gestapo, ^[67]
Flight Lieutenant	James Chrystall Wernham	RCAF	Executed by Gestapo, ^[68]
Flight Lieutenant	George William Wiley	RCAF	Executed by Gestapo, ^[69]^[70]
Squadron Leader	John Edwin Ashley Williams DFC	RAAF	Executed by Gestapo, ^[71]^[72]
Flight Lieutenant	John Francis Williams	RAF	Executed by Gestapo, ^[73]^[74]
Flight Lieutenant	Raymond L. N. van Wymeersch	RAF	^[75]

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