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Archive Home > 2009 > July > 26 > Harry Patch said to be Britain’s last veteran of the WWI trenches

Harry Patch said to be Britain’s last veteran of the WWI trenches

By Robert Barr / The Bulletin
July 26, 2009

LONDON — Harry Patch, Britain’s last survivor of the trenches of World War I, was a reluctant soldier who became a powerful eyewitness to the horror of war and a symbol of a lost generation.

Patch, who died Saturday at 111, was wounded in 1917 in the Battle of Passchendaele,....

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