Alex Lees: A Hero’s Final Great Escape

Alex Lees, 97, who was immortalised, not only in military, but cinematic history (in The Great Escape film – 1963) for his daredevil escape from the German prison camp in 1944, was buried yesterday at Paisley, the U.K.

“But, while 50 of his fellow plotters were executed, after one of the most valiant but tragic escape attempts of the war, the young Royal Army Service Corps driver survived,” reports The Independent. More here…

And here’s a snippet from The Great Escape film…