Václav Robert Bozděch

Colonel Václav Robert Bozděch (15 July 1912 in Soběkury– 27 February 1980 in Devon) was a Czech air gunner of World War II.

He was a British Royal Air Force (RAF) squadron gunner and commander of training centers.

He arrived in Great Britain via Poland and France, where he briefly served in the French Air Force.

Bozdech was accompanied through the war by a German Shepherd dog, which he found as a puppy after a crash landing while in the French Air Force.

After the 1948 Czechoslovak coup d'état he went into exile a second time and returned to the UK, where he rejoined the RAF and married again.