Known as the last Tommy, Patch fought in the battle of Passchendaele in 1917 in which more than 70,000 British troops died.
Poppies fall around British World War I veteran Harry Patch in October 2007 at the launch of the Royal Britich Legion Poppy Appeal. Patch, who was injured in the third battle of Ypres in 1917 and had surgery without anesthetic, didn’t talk about his experiences until late in his life. He was Britain's last surviving World War I veteran.
Patch was conscripted into the Army aged 18 and fought in the Battle of Passchendaele at Ypres in 1917 in which more than 70,000 British soldiers died.
He was raised in Combe Down, near Bath, and had been living at a care home in Wells, Somerset, British media reports said.
The sole British survivor of the war is former seaman Claude Choules, who is aged 108 and lives in Australia. Choules, who is originally from Worcestershire, saw service with the Royal Navy. Henry Allingham, who served in the navy and the RAF in WWI, died at the age of 113 a week ago.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/4822705.cms
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article6727433.ece
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/jul/25/harry-patch-dies-world-war-one
No comments:
Post a Comment