It's believed there's just one survivor of World War II's so-called Great Escape left alive after Australian airman Paul Royle died aged 101.
Mr Royle was one of 76 prisoners who broke out of German prisoner-of-war camp Stalag Luft III in 1944.
Their feat was subsequently made into a feature film called The Great Escape starring Steve McQueen.
Mr Royle died on Sunday at Hollywood Hospital in Perth following surgery on a fractured hip, the ABC reports.
The 101-year-old was injured when he fell at an aged care facility.
"Dad continued to live his life to the full," the veteran's son, Gordon Royle, told the ABC.
"It was a fall that killed him in the end."
The broadcaster reports the sole remaining survivor of the March 1944 escape is 94-year-old British man Dick Churchill.
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