He started fighting in 1917 and was seriously wounded at Passchendaele.
Mr. Patch was on record as saying that he was honoured to be representing an entire generation.
He was also on record as saying that the war "...wasn't worth it."
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Saturday, July 25, 2009
575...Then There Were None
The last surviving veteran of The Great War, World War I, Harry Patch, has exited planet earth at the age of 111. The Fletcher House Care Home, Wells, England, said he passed earlier today.
He started fighting in 1917 and was seriously wounded at Passchendaele.
Mr. Patch was on record as saying that he was honoured to be representing an entire generation.
He was also on record as saying that the war "...wasn't worth it."
WFDS
He started fighting in 1917 and was seriously wounded at Passchendaele.
Mr. Patch was on record as saying that he was honoured to be representing an entire generation.
He was also on record as saying that the war "...wasn't worth it."
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There are still other surviving veterans of WWI, I saw a story on a Canadian one just the other day, read your source story again, it doesn't say he's the last surviving WWI veteran on earth, it even says: "Claude Choules, 108, who lives in Perth, Australia and served with the Royal Navy, now becomes the last surviving veteran of the 1914-18 conflict from the British side"
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