Gordon Royle said Friday that his father died Sunday at a Perth hospital following surgery on a hip fracture that he suffered in a fall in a nursing home.
Australian Broadcasting Corp. reports that Royle's death leaves only one survivor of the 76 men who escaped from Stalag Luft III in 1944: 94-year-old British man Dick Churchill, a former squadron leade
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Our deepest condolences to the family and friends of the deceased
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