Harry Patch - Military Wiki. Henry John . He appears in the 1. Census as a two- year- old boy along with his stonemason father William John Patch, mother Elizabeth Ann (n.
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Remembrance Day: Oldest WWI survivor Henry Allingham to lead commemorations. News and Articles on Last Living Veterans. Harry Patch - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. 8Combe Down, Bath, Somerset. Henry Allingham Harry Patch and William Stone arrive at. William Stone, Henry A. Stone, Henry Allingham and Harry Patch.
The family are recorded at the same address . Patch left school in 1.
Patch arrived in France in June 1. He was removed from the front line and returned to England on 2. December 1. 91. 7. He was still convalescing on the Isle of Wight when the Armistice was declared the following November. Passchendaele was a disastrous battle – thousands and thousands of young lives were lost.
Earlier this year, I went back to Ypres to shake the hand of Charles Kuentz, Germany's only surviving veteran from the war. We've had 8. 7 years to think what war is. To me, it's a licence to go out and murder. Why should the British government call me up and take me out to a battlefield to shoot a man I never knew, whose language. I couldn't speak? All those lives lost for a war finished over a table.
Now what is the sense in that? They had two sons, both of whom predeceased him: Dennis, who died in 1. Roy, who died in 2. His third partner, Doris, who lived in the same nursing home as him, died in 2. He recalled the story of Moses descending from Mount Sinai with God's Ten Commandments, including . Instead, he shot him in the shoulder, which made the soldier drop his rifle. However, he had to carry on running towards his Lewis Gun, so to proceed, he shot him above the knee, and in the ankle.
I brought him down, but I didn't kill him. Millions of men came to fight in this war and I find it incredible that I am the only one left.–Commenting on graves at a Flanders war cemetery, July 2. Patch was quoted as saying: . Herr Kuentz is a very nice gentleman however. He is all for a united Europe and peace – and so am I.
Kuentz had brought along a tin of Alsatian biscuits and Patch gave him a bottle of Somerset cider in return. War isn't worth one life. He was chosen for this honour as he was a member of the workforce that originally helped build the tower, which was opened on 9 June 1. King George V, an event which Patch also attended.
He was accompanied by historian Richard van Emden. On this occasion, Patch described war as the . This stone is erected to the memory of fallen comrades, and to honour the courage, sacrifice and passing of the Great War generation. It is the gift of former Private and Lewis Gunner Harry Patch, No. C Company, 7th DCLI, the last surviving veteran to have served in the trenches of the Western Front.
The piece sets words by the then Poet Laureate, Andrew Motion, and was performed at Portsmouth Cathedral by the London Mozart Players, the Portsmouth Grammar School chamber choir and the cathedral's choristers. The creation of the work was featured in A poem for Harry, a BBC West documentary that was subsequently repeated on BBC Four.
The programme subsequently won a gold medal at the New York Festivals International Television Programming and Promotion Awards. The penultimate Western Front veteran, the 1. Fernand Goux of France, who died on 9 November 2. He came out unscathed, unlike Patch and the last Alpine Front veteran, 1. Delfino Borroni of Italy, who died on 2. October 2. 00. 8. Patch was also the last surviving Tommy, since the death on 4 April 2.
Netherwood Hughes, who was still in training when the war ended. The penultimate fighting Tommy, Andrew Rigby, died on 9 June 2. Patch's 1. 08th birthday. Claude Choules, the last remaining First World War naval veteran, died on 5 May 2. He was ripped open from his shoulder to his waist by shrapnel and lying in a pool of blood.
When we got to him, he said: 'Shoot me'. He was beyond human help and, before we could draw a revolver, he was dead. And the final word he uttered was 'Mother.' I remember that lad in particular. It's an image that has haunted me all my life, seared into my mind.–An extract from Patch's book The Last Fighting Tommy which was read out at his funeral by Marie- France Andr. The award was presented to Patch on his 1. On 9 March 2. 00. Patch was appointed an Officer of the L.
He received the award from Jean- Michel Veranneman de Watervliet, Belgium's Ambassador to the United Kingdom at a ceremony in the Ambassador's residence in London on 2. September 2. 00. 8, which coincidentally was the 9. This was subsequently lost and, on 2. September 2. 00. 8, at a ceremony at Bath Fire Station, Patch was presented with a replacement medal. This was also seven days after the death of fellow veteran Henry Allingham, who was at the time aged 1.
The Prince of Wales led the tributes to him, saying: . A quarter peal of Grandsire Caters was also rung, half muffled.
Having bought the horse in October 2. Poppy Appeal, the Newmarket trainer decided to name him after a First World War veteran. Michael's daughter suggested Patch after reading an article about him. The result, Last Post, was read by Duffy on the Today programme on BBC Radio 4 on 3. July 2. 00. 9, the day of Allingham's funeral. Radiohead lead singer Thom Yorke explained that the song was inspired by .
The song was sold direct from Radiohead's website for . The song was about the horrors of the trenches and Patch read part of the poem For the Fallen. The Last Fighting Tommy: The Life of Harry Patch, the Oldest Surviving Veteran of the Trenches. Bloomsbury Publishing. ISBN 9. 78- 0- 7.
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