{"id":67292,"date":"2016-08-04T16:55:04","date_gmt":"2016-08-04T20:55:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=67292"},"modified":"2016-08-04T21:02:23","modified_gmt":"2016-08-05T01:02:23","slug":"nigel-drever-passes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=67292","title":{"rendered":"Nigel Drever passes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=67293\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-67293\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Nigel-Drever-300x333.jpg\" alt=\" \" width=\"300\" height=\"333\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-67293\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Nigel-Drever-300x333.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Nigel-Drever-270x300.jpg 270w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Nigel-Drever.jpg 388w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/news\/1555270\/ww2-pilot-made-famous-by-the-great-escape-after-digging-tunnel-out-of-nazi-pow-camp-has-died-aged-92\/\">UK&#8217;s Sun<\/a> reports the sad news that Nigel Drever, one of the remaining 15 pilots who fought the Battle of Britain in the skies over the United Kingdom in 1940 has passed at the tender age of 96 &#8211; he was commisioned as a pilot when he was 19 years old. He was shot down in 1941 over France and imprisoned in the famed Stalag Luft III, featured in the movie &#8220;The Great Escape&#8221;;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Although Mr Drever was not one of the escapees, he did help to dig the tunnels.<\/p>\n<p>On one occasion he had to be pulled out by his boots after the earth collapsed around him.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>After the war Mr Drever worked as a coffee estate manager in Tanzania before managing a nightclub in Andorra and becoming a property developer in Malta and Essex.<\/p>\n<p>His daughter Clair Drever, 67, of Reading, said: \u201cHe lived in Africa, then he went to Malta and then on to Andorra where he owned the Whisky Club.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The UK&#8217;s Sun reports the sad news that Nigel Drever, one of the remaining 15 pilots &hellip; <a title=\"Nigel Drever passes\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=67292\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Nigel Drever passes<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":67293,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-historical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67292","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=67292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67292\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/67293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}