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Alfie Fripp

British RAF officer

Died when: 99 years 204 days (1194 months)
Star Sign: Gemini

 

Alfie Fripp

Alfred George Fripp (13 June 1914 –3 January 2013), known as "Alfie" or "Bill", was a British Royal Air Force squadron leader who was a flight sergeant during the Second World War.

He was shot down by the Luftwaffe in 1939 and held in twelve different prisoner of war camps, including Stalag Luft III, later the site of the "Great Escape".

As the last of the "39ers" (those taken prisoner in the first year of the war), he was the oldest surviving and longest serving British POW.


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