Raymond Meyrick "Eric" Bussell

25 Sep 1944 Together with Lieutenant Michael Cambier he escaped from a cattle truck as the Arnhem prisoners were being transferred to Prisoner of War camps. On 1 Oct they set off for the British lines with a young Dutchman as their guide. The next morning, they were unluckily spotted by a passing German Army driver who took them to the Police station at Gorssel. The senior Dutch Police officer present learnt that they were escaped prisoners from their guide. When the German Sicherheitsdienst (SD) arrived, they took the prisoners back to their headquarters for interrogation. The SD second in command, Ludwig Heinemann decided almost immediately to execute the two officers, even though colleagues thought they should be treated as prisoners of war. With their hands bound they were taken outside and shot, being buried in an unmarked grave.