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Harry Patch, the last Tommy, is now Britain's oldest man

Harry Patch, 111, has become Britain's last survivor of the First World War trenches, following the death of Henry Allingham at 113.

Mr Patch, known as the Last Tommy, is the last living soldier to have fought in the mud-soaked battle of Passchendaele in 1917 in which more than 70,000 British troops died.

Now also the country's oldest man, he lives in a nursing home in Wells. After hearing of the death of Mr Allingham, he said he was "very sad at losing a friend".
Read entire article at Telegraph (UK)