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 (book), a book by Paul Brickhill describing the escape and The Great Escape (film), 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
Flight Lieutenant	R A Bethell	RAF
Flying Officer	Henry "Hank" Birkland	RCAF	Executed by Gestapo
Flight Lieutenant	Edward Gordon Brettell DFC	RAF	Executed by Gestapo
Flight Lieutenant	Leslie C J Brodrick	RAF
Flight Lieutenant	Leslie George "Johnny" Bull DFC	RAF	Executed by Gestapo
Squadron Leader	Roger Joyce Bushell	RAF	Executed by Gestapo
Flight Lieutenant	Bill Cameron	RCAF
Flight Lieutenant	Michael James Casey	RAF	Executed by Gestapo
Squadron Leader	James Catanach DFC	RAAF	Executed by Gestapo
Flight Lieutenant	Arnold George Christensen	RNZAF	Executed by Gestapo
Flight Lieutenant	Richard S A "Dick" Churchill	RAF
Flying Officer	Dennis Herbert Cochran	RAF	Executed by Gestapo
Squadron Leader	Ian Kingston Pembroke Cross DFC	RAF	Executed by Gestapo
Wing Commander	Harry "Wings" Day	RAF
Major	Johnnie Dodge	British Army
Flight Lieutenant	Sydney Dowse	RAF
Flight Lieutenant	Bedrich "Fpinkdie" Dvorak	RAF
Sergeant	Haldor Espelid	Royal Norwegian Air Force	Executed by Gestapo
Flight Lieutenant	Brian Herbert Evans	RAF	Executed by Gestapo
Lieutenant	Nils Fuglesang	Royal Norwegian Air Force	Executed by Gestapo
Lieutenant	Johannes Gouws	SAAF	Executed by Gestapo
Flight Lieutenant	Bernard "Pop" Green	RAF
Flight Lieutenant	William Jack Grisman	RAF	Executed by Gestapo
Flight Lieutenant	Alistair Donald Mackintosh Gunn	RAF	Executed by Gestapo
Warrant Officer	Albert Horace Hake	RAAF	Executed by Gestapo
Flight Lieutenant	Charles Piers Hall	RAF	Executed by Gestapo
Flight Lieutenant	Anthony Ross Henzell Hayter	RAF	Executed by Gestapo
Flight Lieutenant	Edgar Spottiswoode Humphreys	RAF	Executed by Gestapo
Pilot Officer	Bertram "Jimmy" James	RAF
Flying Officer	Gordon Arthur Kidder	RCAF	Executed by Gestapo
Flight Lieutenant	Reginald "Rusty" Kierath	RAAF	Executed by Gestapo
Flight Lieutenant	Antoni Kiewnarski	RAF	Executed by Gestapo
Squadron Leader	Thomas Gresham Kirby-Green	RAF	Executed by Gestapo
Flying Officer	A Wlodzimierz Kolanowski	RCAF	Executed by Gestapo
Flying Officer	Stanislaw Z "Danny" Krol	RAF	Executed by Gestapo
Flight Lieutenant	Patrick Wilson Langford	RCAF	Executed by Gestapo
Flight Lieutenant	Roy B Langlois	RAF
Flight Lieutenant	Thomas Barker Leigh	RAF	Executed by Gestapo
Flight Lieutenant	James Leslie Robert "Cookie" Long	RAF	Executed by Gestapo
Flight Lieutenant	Romas "René" Marcinkus	RAF	Executed by Gestapo
Flight Lieutenant	H C "Johnny" Marshall	RAF
Flight Lieutenant	Alistair T McDonald	RAF
Lieutenant	Clement Aldwyn Neville McGarr	SAAF	Executed by Gestapo
Flight Lieutenant	George Edward McGill	RCAF	Executed by Gestapo
Flight Lieutenant	Harold John Milford	RAF	Executed by Gestapo
Flying Officer	Jerzyy T Mondschein	RAF	Executed by Gestapo
Second Lieutenant	Jens Müller	RAF	Home run via Stettin
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
Flight Lieutenant	Henri Albert Picard	RAF	Executed by Gestapo (Belgian)
Flight Lieutenant	Des L Plunkett	RAF
Flying Officer	Porokoru Patapu "Johnny" Pohe	RNZAF	Executed by Gestapo
Lieutenant	Douglas A Poynter	Royal Navy
Pilot Officer	Paul G Royle	RAF
Lieutenant	Bernard W M Scheidhauer	FFAF	Executed by Gestapo
Flight Lieutenant	Michael Shand	RAF
Pilot Officer	S "Nick" Skanziklas	RHAF	Executed by Gestapo
Lieutenant	Rupert J Stevens	SAAF	Executed by Gestapo
Flying Officer	Robert Campbell Stewart	RAF	Executed by Gestapo
Flying Officer	John Gifford Stower	RAF	Executed by Gestapo
Flying Officer	Denys Oliver Street	RAF	Executed by Gestapo
Flight Lieutenant	Cyril Douglas Swain	RAF	Executed by Gestapo
Flight Lieutenant	Alfred B Thompson	RCAF
Flying Officer	Pawel "Peter" Tobolski	RAF	Executed by Gestapo
Flight Lieutenant	Ivo P Tonder	RAF
Squadron Leader	Leonard Henry Trent	RNZAF
Flight Lieutenant	Arnost "Wally" Valenta	RAF	Executed by Gestapo (Czechoslovakia)
Flight Lieutenant	Bram van der Stok	RAF	Home run to Utrecht.
Flight Lieutenant	Gilbert William "Tim" Walenn	RAF	Executed by Gestapo
Flight Lieutenant	James Chrystall Wernham	RCAF	Executed by Gestapo
Flight Lieutenant	George William Wiley	RCAF	Executed by Gestapo
Squadron Leader	John Edwin Ashley Williams DFC	RAAF	Executed by Gestapo
Flight Lieutenant	John Francis Williams	RAF	Executed by Gestapo
Flight Lieutenant	Raymond L N van Wymeersch	RAF