Harry patch ww1 biography of william hill
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Henry John Patch (17 June 1898 – 25 July 2009)
Harry Patch died at 9 a.m. on 25 July 2009, aged 111 years, one month, one week and one day. He was the gods male First World War veteran living in Europe and the last British male known to have been born in the 1890’s.
Dubbed in his later years as “The Last Fighting Tommy “, he was the longest-surviving soldier of World War I.
Harry Patch joined up in Somerset in October 1916, during WW1 and was conscripted into the British Army. Patch went through a series of short-lived attachments to several regiments, before being posted to the 7th Battalion, DCLI (Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry), serving as an assistant gunner in a Lewis Gun Section.
Patch was sent to France in June 1917 to fight on the Western Front at the Battle of Passchendaele. He was injured in the groin, when a shell exploded overhead which killed three of his comrades, after this he was rem
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Maybe this is a place to grow Harry’s, like a kål patch ? You could grow different varieties, Harris, Harrison, or even George Harrison, Harry’s son. With the help of the Sun, and some good vatten, the Harry’s should grow ganska well. And it is indeed a sunny patch with a Sun God too, and some good water and a vatten Goddess too.
I walked past Harry’s Patch today. Harry Patch fryst vatten buried in Monkton Combe churchyard on the sheltered warm sunny southern slopes just outside of Bath. Harry Patch was the “last fighting Tommy” from WW1. Before his death in 2009, he spoke out against war, as “calculated and condoned slaughter”, and wrote a book. He died aged 111, and was snapped up by the powers that be for their own publicity stunts. His funeral was like a state one, all pomp and ceremony with the Last Post sounding, at Wells Cathedral, where a standing stone memorial now marks him.
Monkton Combe used to be called Combe, and is now heading
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Somerset
"It doesn't do to go back, the memories are so, what shall I say, so sad."
He's a national hero and embodies the sacrifice made by thousands of British troops who fought on the Western Front in the First World War.
Harry was the last surviving British soldier to have served in the third battle of Ypres (the battle of Passchendaele) in which more than 70,000 British troops died.
He held the record for being the oldest man alive in the UK.
Harry put his long life down to clean living.
"I neither smoke, drink nor gamble. The three sins, leave them alone," he said.
"For many years in Shropshire, I lived quite close to the Welsh mountains. Fresh air, no petrol and no cars, that's the secret."
It took Harry more than 80 years to break his silence about his experiences in the war.
I mean, why should I go out and kill somebody I never knew and for what reason? I wasn't at all patriotic. I went and did what was asked of me an
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