Coming Soon.
BRICKHILL, Paul Chester Jerome
Personal Details
Service Number: | 403313 |
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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 |
Service History
World War 2 Service
6 Jan 1941: | Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Aircraftman, 403313 | |
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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 |
Personal Stories
Author
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