Re: Great Escape POW Passes
Date: February 20, 2004
"Great
Escape PoW dies near Toronto
TORONTO -- Tony Bethell, a Second World War fighter pilot who was among the
survivors of a German prisoner-of-war camp involved in a mass breakout known
as the Great Escape, has died at age 81. Born Richard Anthony Bethell in Dar
es Salaam in Tanzania, he was educated at Sherborne School in England and served
as a fighter pilot with the Royal Air Force before moving to Canada in 1955,
his death notice in a Toronto paper read yesterday.
Bethell died at his home in Caledon, north of Toronto, and was remembered as
a man of great strength and character.
Bethell was shot down over Holland in 1942, taken prisoner and spent three years
in Stalag Luft III -- the German PoW camp built for allied air force prisoners.
Stalag Luft was supposed to be more secure than other prison camps.
But a daring tunnel escape was planned by prisoners so that Germans couldn't
go and fight at the front line.
Copyright © 2003, Sun Media Corporation"
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