Edward Gordon Brettell
Flight Lieutenant · 61053 · United Kingdom
- Died
- 29 March 1944, aged 29
- Fate
- Killed in action
Biography
Not known
Burial / commemoration
- Cemetery
- Poznan Old Garrison Cemetery, Poland
Prisoner of war
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Stalag Luft III
— Died in captivity
One of “the Fifty” — Allied air-force officers murdered by the Gestapo after the Great Escape from Stalag Luft III, March 1944. 133 Sqn RAF.
Operations on this date. One raid in this archive was flown on the night of 29 March 1944: Lyons. (Cross-reference by date — not in itself confirmation this airman flew it.)
Source: CWGC casualty record: BRETTELL, EDWARD GORDON → · Commonwealth War Graves Commission