The man thought be Britain's oldest-surviving and longest-serving World War II PoW has passed away this morning at the age of 98.
Harry Fripp visiting Stalag Luft III in March 2009 with other British former PoWs
The PoW Association confirmed that Alfie Fripp died in hospital in Bournemouth, Dorset.
Mr Fripp spent almost all of World War II in captivity after his plane was shot down by the Luftwaffe in 1939.
He was held at 12 different PoW camps, including Stalag Luft III, the scene of prisoner escapes which were dramatised in the film The Great Escape.
The pilot of the plane he was shot down in was one of 50 Allied airmen who escaped from the camp, only to be caught by the Nazis and executed on Hitler's orders.
BBC News - Alfie Fripp, prisoner of war at Stalag Luft III, dies aged 98
Harry Fripp visiting Stalag Luft III in March 2009 with other British former PoWs
The PoW Association confirmed that Alfie Fripp died in hospital in Bournemouth, Dorset.
Mr Fripp spent almost all of World War II in captivity after his plane was shot down by the Luftwaffe in 1939.
He was held at 12 different PoW camps, including Stalag Luft III, the scene of prisoner escapes which were dramatised in the film The Great Escape.
The pilot of the plane he was shot down in was one of 50 Allied airmen who escaped from the camp, only to be caught by the Nazis and executed on Hitler's orders.
BBC News - Alfie Fripp, prisoner of war at Stalag Luft III, dies aged 98
