RIP Harry Patch
Saturday, July 25th, 2009 11:51 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
caddymanhttp://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6954937.stm
Harry Patch, briefly England's oldest man and last survivor of the trenches has died, aged 111.
He was the final physical link to a conflict that saw two armies bogged down in the mud of Flanders and northern France for more than four years. Henry John Patch was born at Combe Down, a small village near Bath, on 17 June, 1898 in the twilight of the Victorian age.
Rest in peace, Harry.
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