OBITUARIES OF POWS

Those listed below can be viewed, in some cases by visiting the website of the newspaper where specified.
Accessing information on newspaper websites may involve providing some information before entry is given.
The date shown is (o) the date of the obituary or (art)icle or (d) the date of death.
The names
Daily Telegraph and The Times are registered Trade Marks

Best, Jack - Colditz Glider o 26.4.00 The Times
Brickhill, Paul - author o 26.4.94 The Times
Bruce, Dominic, OBE MC AFM - Colditz o 3.3.00 The Times
Crawley, Aidan - author, tv o 4.11.93 The Times
Dowling, Eric - Great Escape team art 6.8.08
o 7.8.08
o 7.8.08
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o 7.8.08
D Tel
D Tel
Independent
Guardian
The Times
Deans, JAG ('Dixie')
A remarkable leader of POWs and a key intelligence coordinator; a founder member and first President of the RAF Ex-POW Association
d 18.2.89 compiled by the editor
Floody, Wallace - tunnelling expert o 27.9.89 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
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 18.1.08 The Times
Jensen, 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
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
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
Tonder, Ivo - Czech Great Escaper o 8.5.95 The Times
Van Wymeersch, Raymond - Great Escaper o 14.6.00 by Ian Le Sueur

last updated 12 August 2008