Group Captain John Bussey,
OBE (1895-1979) was in charge of Reconnaissance for the British
Royal Air Force
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during
World War II
World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposin ...
. As Directorate of Overseas Surveys he had an Antarctic glacier named after him:
Australian Antarctic Data Centre
/ref> the Bussey Glacier
Bussey Glacier () is a glacier flowing west from Mount Peary to the head of Waddington Bay on Kyiv Peninsula on the west coast of Graham Land. It was first charted by the French Antarctic Expedition under Jean-Baptiste Charcot, 1908–10, and n ...
.
He was on board the Imperial Airways
Imperial Airways was the early British commercial long-range airline, operating from 1924 to 1939 and principally serving the British Empire routes to South Africa, India, Australia and the Far East, including Malaya and Hong Kong. Passenger ...
flying boat Courtier which crash landed near Athens in 1937.
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1895 births
1979 deaths
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