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    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...
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  • "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...
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  • 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)...
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  • 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...
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  • 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...
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    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...
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  • composer, music theorist, and creator of unique musical instruments Harry Patch (1898–2009), English supercentenarian, briefly the oldest man in Europe...
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  • 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"...
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    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...
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    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...
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    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...
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    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...
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    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...
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    Choules appeared in the BBC documentaries The Last Tommy (2005) and Harry Patch – The Last Tommy (2009). After his death, Australian Prime Minister Julia...
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    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...
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  • July 2009. The album's title track was also to feature spoken word from Harry Patch, providing extracts from Laurence Binyon's For the Fallen. During the...
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    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...
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    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...
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    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...
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    time of his death, there two other trench veterans survived: Britons Harry Patch and Frenchman Fernand Goux, who fought on the Western Front. Borroni...
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    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...
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  • 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...
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  • Sir Norman Wisdom, Sir Bobby Charlton, Eric Clapton, Henry Allingham, Harry Patch, HRH Duke of Kent, and HRH Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. He has been...
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  • series, along with German veteran Charles Kuentz. Those interviewed were: Harry Patch, Claude Choules, Bill Stone, Alfred Anderson, Sandy Young, Alfred Finnigan...
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    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...
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  • well into their 90s. All of these veterans have subsequently died. Harry Patch appeared in episodes 4 and 6, Henry Allingham appeared in episode 4....
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  • 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...
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    Castle Great Western Railway Great Western Railway In service Formerly Harry Patch. 43173 – – Great Western Trains Great Western Trains 'Merlin'[full citation...
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    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...
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    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...
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