Stalag Luft III - need help figuring out a name

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  1. Aunika Hinks

    Aunika Hinks New Member

    Jean Guy Turgeon, from Lac Mégantic QC - was my grandfather.
     
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  2. brithm

    brithm Senior Member

    The Great Escape, 1944 from
    MASSEY HERBERT MARTIN (AIR COMMODORE) COLLECTION

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    IWM HU 1591
    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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    IWM HU 1592
    From left to right:
    26. Flight Lieutenant Patrick Wilson Langford, Royal Canadian Air Force.
    27. Flight Lieutenant Thomas Barker Leigh, Royal Air Force.
    28. Flight Lieutenant James Leslie Long, Royal Air Force.
    29. Lieutenant Clement Aldwyn Neville McGarr, South African Air Force.
    30. Flight Lieutenant George Edward McGill, Royal Canadian Air Force.
    31. Flight Lieutenant Romualdas Marcinkus, Royal Air Force (Lithuanian).
    32. Flight Lieutenant Harold John Milford, Royal Air Force.
    33. Flying Officer Jerzy Tomasz Mondschein, No. 304 Bomber Squadron, Polish Air Force.
    34. Flying Officer Kazimierz Pawluk, No. 305 Bomber Squadron, Polish Air Force.
    35. Flight Lieutenant Henri Picard, Royal Air Force (Belgian).
    36. Flying Officer John Porokoru Patapu Pohe, Royal New Zealand Air Force.
    37. Lieutenant Bernard William Martial Scheidhauer, Free French Air Forces.
    38. Pilot Officer Sotiris Skanzikas, Royal Hellenic Air Force.
    39. Flight Lieutenant Cyril Douglas Swain, Royal Air Force.
    40. Lieutenant Rupert J. Stevens, South African Air Force.
    41. Flying Officer Robert Campbell Stewart, Royal Air Force.
    42. Flying Officer John Gifford Stower, Royal Air Force.
    43. Flying Officer Denys Oliver Street, Royal Air Force.
    44. Flying Officer Paweł Tobolski, No. 301 Bomber Squadron, Polish Air Force.
    45. Flight Lieutenant Arnost Valenta, Royal Air Force (Czechoslovak).
    46. Flight Lieutenant Gilbert William Walenn, Royal Air Force.
    47. Flight Lieutenant James Chrystall Wernham, Royal Canadian Air Force.
    48. Flight Lieutenant George William Wiley, Royal Canadian Air Force.
    49. Squadron Leader John Edwin Ashley Williams DFC, Royal Australian Air Force.
    50. Flight Lieutenant John Francis Williams, Royal Air Force.
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    IWM HU 1578 Tins of "Klim" dried milk tins fitted together by POWs for air pump at Stalag Luft III, Sagan.
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    IWM HU 1584 Entrance to the tunnel "Harry" underneath the stove in room 23 of Block 104 at Stalag Luft III, Sagan. Photograph probably taken in late March 1944.
     

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  3. Toe Dipper

    Toe Dipper Junior Member

    Doc Lewis used to be my maths teacher in Salvo. Recognise his face in the photo.
     
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  4. Toe Dipper

    Toe Dipper Junior Member

    Yeah, rember him in his wheelchair running over the toes of all the boys lined up, backs against the wall, waiting to go into his class.
     
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  5. Incredibledisc

    Incredibledisc Well-Known Member

    Hi Aunika. Would love to know more about him. Have sent you a message.
     

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