Paul Chester Jerome BRICKHILL

BRICKHILL, Paul Chester Jerome

    Service Number: 403313
    Enlisted: 6 January 1941
    Last Rank: Flight Lieutenant
    Last Unit: No. 92 Squadron (RAAF)
    Born: Balwyn, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia , 20 December 1916
    Home Town: Sydney, City of Sydney, New South Wales
    Schooling: North Sydney Boys’ High School and the University of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
    Occupation: Journalist
    Died: Heart Disease, Balmoral, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, 23 April 1991, aged 74 years
    Cemetery: Northern Suburbs Memorial Gardens and Crematorium, NSW
    Memorial Location: Bushland-Section 3. Also his (DVA) Official Commemoration - Memorial Location: Wall 17/Panel C; AT the New South Wales Garden of Remembrance (within Rookwood Necropolis) Memorial Ave - Rookwood, Cumberland Council, New South Wales.
    Memorials: Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial
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    World War 2 Service

    6 Jan 1941: Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Aircraftman, 403313
    6 Jan 1941: Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Flight Lieutenant, 403313
    8 Apr 1946: Discharged Royal Australian Air Force, Flight Lieutenant, 403313, No. 92 Squadron (RAAF)
    8 Apr 1946: Discharged Royal Australian Air Force, Flight Lieutenant, 403313

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    A journalist before the war, Paul Brickhill was the most senior person in his room in his hut at Stalag Luft III where the Great Escape took place. 50 of the captured escapees were shot. Paul painstakingly researched what happened after the war.

    He wrote The Great Escape, The Dam Busters, and Reach for the Sky: The Story of The Life of Douglas Bader. All of these non-fiction books were turned into films.

    He also wrote Escape or Die.

    Submitted 8 April 2022 by Matthew Mulvaney

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