{"id":33480,"date":"2013-01-04T10:24:22","date_gmt":"2013-01-04T14:24:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=33480"},"modified":"2013-01-04T10:24:37","modified_gmt":"2013-01-04T14:24:37","slug":"alfie-bill-fripp-last-of-the-gret-escape-passes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=33480","title":{"rendered":"Alfie \u2018Bill\u2019 Fripp, last of the &#8220;Great Escape&#8221; passes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=33481\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-33481\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Alfie-Fripp-214x300.jpg\" alt=\"Alfie Fripp\" width=\"214\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-33481\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Alfie-Fripp-214x300.jpg 214w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Alfie-Fripp.jpg 636w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 214px) 100vw, 214px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Toothless Dawg <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-2256696\/Alfie-Fripp-Hero-REAL-Great-Escape-oldest-surviving-longest-serving-British-POW-dies-aged-98.html\">sends us the news<\/a> that Alfie \u2018Bill\u2019 Fripp, the last living member of the Stalag Luft III World War Two &#8220;Great Escape&#8221; has passed on at the ripe age of 98. Alfie didn&#8217;t actually take part in the escape made famous by the star-studded movie, but it was his job to assemble the equipment they needed to make history;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>One of Alfie\u2019s official jobs was to marshal Red Cross aid parcels, a lifeline for prisoners.<\/p>\n<p>His unofficial job was to filter out the parcels coded to identify secret contents such as valves for radios or maps.<\/p>\n<p>He was relocated from Stalag Luft III less than two months before the Great Escape, but equipment from those parcels almost certainly contributed to the operation.<\/p>\n<p>To his eternal regret, however, his friend Mike Casey would be among 50 escapees slaughtered on Hitler\u2019s orders when they were eventually recaptured.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toothless Dawg sends us the news that Alfie \u2018Bill\u2019 Fripp, the last living member of the &hellip; <a title=\"Alfie \u2018Bill\u2019 Fripp, last of the &#8220;Great Escape&#8221; passes\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=33480\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Alfie \u2018Bill\u2019 Fripp, last of the &#8220;Great Escape&#8221; passes<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blue-skies","category-historical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33480\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}