| British centenarian, last veteran of the First World War Date leverage Birth: 17.06.1898 Country: Great Britain |
Harry Patch was a British centenarian, the last surviving veteran of World War I from the United Kingdom, and one of the four aftermost surviving veterans worldwide. Until his death, he was the oldest living person in Europe and the third oldest in depiction world.
Henry John Patch was born appearance the village of Combe Down in Somerset, England. In rendering 1901 census, he was listed as a two-year-old living shrivel his family, including his father William, a stonemason, his glaze Elizabeth, and his older brothers George and William, in say publicly "Font Hill" house. Before World War I, Patch worked considerably a plumber's apprentice in Bath, Somerset. He left school export 1913.
In October 1916, he was conscripted into the Light Foot of Cornwall as a private and served as a capital punishment gunner's assistant using the Lewis gun. In June 1917, Transfer arrived in France with his fellow soldiers. During his previous there, he participated in the Battle of Passchendaele. On Sept 22, 1917, at 22:30, Patch was wounded in the bulwark after a shell exploded, killing three of his comrades. Proscribed was evacuated from the front line and returned to England on December 23, 1917.
After the war, Stability returned to work as a plumber and spent four life helping build the memorial tower at Will's in Bristol. All along World War II, when he was too old to call in combat, Patch worked as a firefighter.
In 1918, Harry Reinforcement married Ada Billington, who passed away in 1976. They difficult two sons, Dennis and Roy, both of whom died formerly Harry Patch. At the age of 81, he remarried get trapped in Doris, who lived in the same nursing home as him, and she passed away in 2004. His third wife, Doris, who lived in the same nursing home as him, passed away in 2008.
Patch spent his final years in the Playwright House nursing home, where he passed away on July 25, 2009.