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Saturday, July 25, 2009

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The death of Harry Patch leaves Aussie veteran Claude Choules as the last person to have seen active service in WWI
WWI trench soldier Harry Patch dies
Claude Choules last surviving veteran
Patch called the war "organised murder"
HARRY Patch, the last soldier to fight in the trenches of Europe during World War I, has died at the age of 111.
Claude Choules, 108, who lives in Perth, Australia, and served with the Royal Navy, now becomes the last surviving veteran of the 1914-18 conflict from the British side.
Patch, who fought at the notorious Battle of Passchendaele in 1917, was also Britain's oldest man following the death of fellow veteran Henry Allingham, the oldest man in the world, one week ago.
He is the last World War I veteran to have served in the trenches, according to the dersdesders.free.fr website, which is regarded as an authoritative chronicle of veterans of the conflict. LinkHere

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