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Title: Great Escape’s last veteran Jack Lyon dies aged 101 Post by: Tony oily bike on March 12, 2019, 05:33:37 PM Time moves on.......
The last veteran of World War Two's Great Escape, Jack Lyons, has died at the age of 101 - just days before the 75th anniversary of the audacious bid for freedom. Interesting to read his view on the film........... (re the BBC link below) https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-sussex-47540103 Here’s a piece on Dick Churchill, one of the 76 who actually escaped, who died in February. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-devon-47257570 Title: Re: Great Escape’s last veteran Jack Lyon dies aged 101 Post by: Manky Monkey on March 13, 2019, 05:58:34 PM Strangely, I visited a prisoner of war camp on Monday.
I was in Yorkshire over the weekend & stopped off at Eden Camp in Malton on the way back. It was a British prison camp, holding 1,500 foreign prisoners during World War 2. Title: Re: Great Escape’s last veteran Jack Lyon dies aged 101 Post by: Manky Monkey on March 13, 2019, 05:58:57 PM .
Title: Re: Great Escape’s last veteran Jack Lyon dies aged 101 Post by: Manky Monkey on March 13, 2019, 05:59:21 PM .
Title: Re: Great Escape’s last veteran Jack Lyon dies aged 101 Post by: Manky Monkey on March 13, 2019, 05:59:41 PM .
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