Last - Fighting Tommy, Memorial to Henry John Patch, Wells Museum, Cathedral Green, Well, Somerset. BA5 2UE.
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Henry John Patch was the last surviving soldier known to have fought in the trenches of the First World War, also briefly the oldest man in Europe.
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Location: South West England, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 11/17/2015
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Harry was born in Combe Down, near Bath, Somerset, on the 17th June 1898 and at the time of his death, aged 111 years, 1 month, 1 week and 1 day, on 25th July 2009, he was the third-oldest man in the world, the oldest man in Europe and the 77th oldest man ever.
His memorial is a bronze plaque mounted on a rough hewn sandstone block in the grounds of Wells Museum. It reads:-
The Last Fighting Tommy
Pte.HENRY JOHN PATCH (HARRY)
C Company 7th D.C.L.I.
17th June 1898 - 25th July 2009
AGE 111
Fought in the battle of Passchendaele
During the 1914 - 1918 war
Freeman of the City of Wells
also representing all the brave young men
lost in The Great War
For a full discussion of Henry Patch's varied life and times see the Wikipedia article at:-
Henry Patch