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By: mackerel - 5th January 2013 at 19:30
Hi all, I tried to post this last night but had PC problems ! On Jeremy Vine show yesterday lunch time on radio 2, they had a Robert Fripp on the show talking about his uncle Alfie & about him being shot down in 1939/40 . Made intresting listening. You might get the show on BBCI player. For those old enough to remember King Crimson, Robert Fripp was the guitarist in that group & many others.
Steve”P”
By: Versuch - 4th January 2013 at 22:32
Bluerobin….I was going to put it there,but was worried I might be off topic.
Cheers
Alan125…Thanks for the reply,it was a general question. But I was unaware
of the unwanted interest he had to contend with, no doubt a gestapo gun
at his head with the words “Now smile for the camera”.
Many thanks.
Mike
By: Quinny - 4th January 2013 at 21:35
RIP, a true hero.
Never a statement was more true.
By: allan125 - 4th January 2013 at 14:18
What exactly do you mean by “What happened when he got home” – he was initially suspected of collusion with the Germans by virtue of a “Photograph captured in Germany” – but on 4 August 1945 it was decided to take no action against him as there was no offence, does this help?
Source: Footprints on the sands of time” Oliver Clutton-Brook – page 181 – Traitors and Collaborators – 1940 1945.
Allan
By: BlueRobin - 4th January 2013 at 12:53
Versuch, I’ve merged your new thread with the previous one.
Can anyone help? 🙂
By: Versuch - 4th January 2013 at 05:35
One of the first POWs
The sad passing of Alfie Fripp,reminded me of this 39er.
AC1 L.J.Slattery 107 sqn Shot down in Blenheim IV N6240 3-4 Sep 1939.
I have always wondered , what happened when he finally got home.
Anyone?
By: D1566 - 3rd January 2013 at 23:23
RIP, a true hero.
By: allan125 - 3rd January 2013 at 16:30
Alfie Fripp – R.I.P.
See also http://therealgreatescape.com/alfie-fripp/ where it mentions his pilot, Flying Officer M. J. Carey who was shot down by fighters along with his crew Sgt A. T Fripp (observer) and AC Nelson (Gunner) on a recce of Wesel-Bocholt which is north west of Essen. all three were reported as prisoners.
Sadly, F/O Casey was one of the 50 murdered in The Great Escape.
See also – from 2009 http://www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/4230742.Emotional_return_to____Great_Escape____site/
“Speaking from Zagan, Mr Fripp told the Echo: “I’m very pleased to have said goodbye to my pilot. I’m sure he’s much happier up there than we are down here. He was a very nice bloke and very friendly. He got married two days after I did, on September 8 1939, and we flew out to France on September 30.”
Well, after almost 69 years they are together again.
Allan
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