The last P.O.W.

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In nearly six years behind barbed wire – through starvation, disease and Hitler’s programme of mass murder – his efforts helped countless others to escape and get back into the war.

But yesterday Squadron Leader Alfred George Fripp, longest serving and oldest surviving British PoW and last of the so-called ‘39ers’, finally gave up the fight. He died peacefully in his sleep at the age of 98.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...g-British-POW-dies-aged-98.html#ixzz2H0uTKAay

Alfie Fripp was captured in 1939 and spent WWII in 12 different PoW camps, including Stalagluft III.

His nephew is Robert Fripp.