Mention of Stalag Luft III reminds me that some years ago at a Yacht Club dinner the lady to my left told me in the course of conversation that her first husband had been one of the fifty officers murdered after the Great Escape. A year or so later a retired RAF chaplain, Ray Hubble, and I organised the wake of a naval aviator (and former Queen's Sailing Master) Lt Cdr Alastair Easton, who had also been incarcerated in Stalag Luft III. In the room were three other former occupants of Stalag Luft III. Talk about the hair standing up on the back of one's neck.