• Thumbnail for Harry Patch
    aged 111 years and 38 days, Patch was the third-oldest man in the world, behind Walter Breuning and Jiroemon Kimura. Harry Patch was born in the village of...
    45 KB (4,980 words) - 21:07, 1 November 2024
  • "Harry Patch (In Memory Of)" is a song by the English alternative rock band Radiohead. The song is a tribute to the British supercentenarian Harry Patch...
    21 KB (2,052 words) - 21:07, 1 November 2024
  • TV series Patch Adams (Hunter Adams, born 1945), American physician and clown Alexander Patch (1889–1945), WWII U.S. Army general Harry Patch (1898–2009)...
    3 KB (333 words) - 06:52, 6 July 2024
  • sessions with Godrich. In August, they released "Harry Patch (In Memory Of)", a tribute song to Harry Patch, the last surviving British soldier to have fought...
    204 KB (17,295 words) - 00:18, 1 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Langemark German war cemetery
    Langemark German Military Cemetery Harry Patch and Richard van Emden (2009), The Last Fighting Tommy: The Life of Harry Patch, Last Veteran of the Trenches...
    7 KB (657 words) - 05:56, 6 February 2024
  • Thumbnail for Bishop's Palace, Wells
    programme Inside Out West to write a poem in Harry Patch's honour. Entitled "The Five Acts of Harry Patch" it was first read at a special event at the...
    30 KB (3,227 words) - 07:03, 23 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Wells, Somerset
    HMS Somerset, Mary Bignal-Rand, Danny Nightingale, The Rifles and the late Harry Patch have the Freedom of the City. The Somerset Light Infantry received the...
    81 KB (7,846 words) - 23:16, 23 October 2024
  • May 2011, aged 110. The last veteran who served in the trenches was Harry Patch (British Army), who died on 25 July 2009, aged 111. The last Central...
    42 KB (2,318 words) - 21:29, 11 October 2024
  • released two non-album singles: "Harry Patch (In Memory Of)", a tribute to the last surviving World War I soldier Harry Patch, and "These Are My Twisted Words"...
    60 KB (2,698 words) - 21:32, 27 February 2024
  • composer, music theorist, and creator of unique musical instruments Harry Patch (1898–2009), English supercentenarian, briefly the oldest man in Europe...
    19 KB (2,182 words) - 12:49, 17 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Wills Memorial Building
    Isambard Owen (then Vice-Chancellor) in the realisation of Oatley's plans. Harry Patch, a veteran of the First World War who also worked on the building, re-unveiled...
    14 KB (1,311 words) - 19:26, 26 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for HMS Somerset (F82)
    interest in the ship and is a regular visitor, and the ship also hosted Harry Patch, Simon Weston (in place of Johnson Beharry) and Marcus Trescothick whilst...
    21 KB (1,727 words) - 12:23, 28 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Radiohead discography
    from the original on 29 July 2014. Retrieved 23 July 2014. "Radiohead: Harry Patch (In memory of)". BBC. 5 August 2009. Archived from the original on 6...
    103 KB (5,224 words) - 23:10, 19 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Johnson Beharry
    United. On 11 November 2008 Beharry served as an escort to 110-year-old Harry Patch, then one of only three remaining British survivors of the First World...
    26 KB (2,462 words) - 00:06, 28 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Wells Cathedral
    connections to it. In July 2009 the cathedral undertook the funeral of Harry Patch, the last British Army veteran of World War I, who died at the age of...
    123 KB (12,357 words) - 00:52, 24 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Cabbage Patch Kids
    Cabbage Patch Kids are a line of cloth dolls with plastic heads first produced by Coleco Industries in 1982. They were inspired by the Little People soft...
    34 KB (4,125 words) - 22:08, 29 October 2024
  • series, along with German veteran Charles Kuentz. Those interviewed were: Harry Patch, Claude Choules, Bill Stone, Alfred Anderson, Sandy Young, Alfred Finnigan...
    5 KB (565 words) - 12:12, 22 May 2023
  • Thumbnail for Andrew Motion
    109-year-old Harry Patch, the last surviving "Tommy" to have fought in World War I, Motion composed a five-part poem, read and received by Patch at the Bishop's...
    30 KB (3,086 words) - 20:10, 26 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Claude Choules
    Choules appeared in the BBC documentaries The Last Tommy (2005) and Harry Patch – The Last Tommy (2009). After his death, Australian Prime Minister Julia...
    28 KB (2,555 words) - 14:06, 20 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Remembrance poppy
    Their tops bore the message "War is Organised Murder", a quote from Harry Patch, one of the last surviving veterans of World War I. British Prime Minister...
    82 KB (8,457 words) - 21:46, 13 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Peter Parker (author)
    daunting process of reconstruction and re-appraisal." The Last Veteran: Harry Patch and the Legacy of War was published by Fourth Estate on Armistice Day...
    21 KB (1,860 words) - 18:25, 21 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Last Post (poem)
    was commissioned by the BBC to mark the deaths of Henry Allingham and Harry Patch, two of the last three surviving British veterans from the First World...
    11 KB (1,253 words) - 00:31, 27 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Henry Allingham
    the 90th anniversary of the end of the First World War, together with Harry Patch and Bill Stone, Allingham laid a commemorative wreath for the Act of...
    48 KB (4,867 words) - 23:09, 26 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for John Babcock
    military to have served in the First World War and, after the death of Harry Patch, was the conflict's oldest surviving veteran. Babcock first attempted...
    22 KB (2,397 words) - 04:54, 3 September 2024
  • featured on his 2008 album Footsteps. The song was sung at the funeral of Harry Patch, the last British soldier of the First World War, in Wells Cathedral...
    25 KB (2,611 words) - 18:04, 26 October 2024
  • remain for the rest of his life. In November 2004, he met British veteran Harry Patch, who had fought on the opposing side of him in the Battle of Passchendaele...
    5 KB (530 words) - 13:49, 20 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Street, Somerset
    before the formation of the Union of South Africa in 1910. Henry John "Harry" Patch (1898-2009), the last surviving 'Tommy' from the First World War, moved...
    40 KB (4,339 words) - 02:05, 19 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Carol Ann Duffy
    was commissioned by the BBC to mark the deaths of Henry Allingham and Harry Patch, the last remaining British soldiers to fight in World War I. Her third...
    43 KB (4,221 words) - 07:31, 31 October 2024
  • 1921) 24 July – Harry Towb, actor (b. 1925) 25 July Ken Major, architect (b. 1928) Stanley Middleton, novelist (b. 1919) Harry Patch, World War I veteran...
    126 KB (13,243 words) - 10:31, 17 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Delfino Borroni
    time of his death, there two other trench veterans survived: Britons Harry Patch and Frenchman Fernand Goux, who fought on the Western Front. Borroni...
    3 KB (252 words) - 21:51, 26 September 2024