Flight Lt A Cassie “Sandy”
Alexander Cassie
Named in the book
- Rank
- Pilot Officer
- Later rank
- Flight Lt
- Squadron
- No 77 Squadron
- School
- Queen's College, University of Aberdeen
- Fate
- Prisoner of war. Died 2012
- In the book
- Pages 108, 112
From the book
Not at Home for Christmas
Pilot Officer Alexander “Sandy” Cassie a No 77 Squadron Coastal Command Whitley pilot and his crew were shot down attacking a submarine in early September 1941. Born in the Eastern Cape and educated at Queens College, he studied psychology at the University of Aberdeen. Commissioned in 1940, Cassie played a major role forging “Great Escape” documentation but a claustrophobia sufferer, elected not to take up his ticket for the tunnel.
Not at Home for Christmas
Flight Lt “Sandy” Cassie died in 2012 apparently haunted by the “Great Escape” throughout his life as five of his roommates who escaped, were murdered by the Gestapo.