He left school in 1. Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry. Fighting in the mud and trenches during the Battle of Passchendaele, he saw a great many of his comrades die, and in one dreadful moment the shell that wounded him kill his three closest friends. In vivid detail he describes daily life in the trenches, the terror of being under intense artillery fire, and the fear of going over the top. Then, after the Armistice, the soldiers' frustration at not being quickly demobbed led to a mutiny in which Harry was soon caught up. The Second World War saw Harry in action on the home front as a fire- fighter during the bombing of Bath. ![]() The Last Fighting Tommy The Life Of Harry Patch Last Veteran Of The Trenches 1898 2009 The Last Fighting Tommy The Life Of Harry Patch.Harry Patch's war came to. The last fighting Tommy. BBC Audiobooks schema. His book The Last Fighting Tommy. Other returns included for the BBC's The Last Tommy. Harry Patch, Britain's last surviving soldier of the Great War. The Last Tommy is a three episode documentary series about some of Britain's. Harry Patch was the oldest person in. The Last Fighting Tommy, Harry said his parents didn’t think he was. BBC: Remembrance 90; Harry Patch in. He also warmly describes his friendship with American GIs preparing to go to France, and, years later, his tears when he saw their graves. Late in life Harry achieved fame, meeting the Queen and taking part in the BBC documentary The Last Tommies, finally shaking hands with a German veteran of the artillery and speaking out frankly to Prime Minister Tony Blair about the soldiers shot for cowardice in the First World War. The Last Fighting Tommy is the story of an ordinary man's extraordinary life. He was married in 1. Between the wars he worked as a plumber and on building sites in the Bristol area, and when t.. Harry Patch, last British survivor of First World War. Harry Patch, the last British soldier to have. ![]() ![]()
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