airey_neave | battles | world_war_ii <tsp> airey_neave | birthplace | knightsbridge <tsp> airey_neave | activeyearsstartdate | 1953-06-30 <tsp> airey_neave | activeyearsenddate | 1979-03-30 <sep> airey middleton sheffield neave,  (;) (23 january 1916 – 30 march 1979) was a british soldier, lawyer and member of parliament (mp) from 1953 until his assassination in 1979 during world war ii he was the first british prisoner-of-war to succeed in escaping from oflag iv-c at colditz castle, and later worked for mi9 after the war he served with the international military tribunal at the nuremberg trials he later became conservative mp for abingdon neave was assassinated in a car bomb attack at the house of commons 
airey neave was born in knightsbridge. england and fought in world war two. he started his career on june 30th. 1953 and ended it on march 30th. 1979.airey middleton sheffield neave was a british soldier during world war ii