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Article: It flew over the trenches. Yesterday this flag marked the passing of a generation; HOW I SEE IT.(News)
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- Daily Mail (London)
- Article date:
- November 12, 2009
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Byline: by Robert Hardman At the Armistice Day service at Westminster Abbey
ONLY one man, in this repository of kings and legends, is so revered that none may tread upon his grave. And yesterday, on the anniversary of his funeral here in Westminster Abbey, he was the focal point as the Queen and the entire nation paid a formal farewell to the generation who fought the Great War.
In recent months, we have lost our last three witnesses of the First World War - Bill Stone, 108, of the Royal Navy, Henry Allingham, 113, founder member of the Royal Air Force and, finally, Harry Patch, 111, the last Tommy, the last man to know what it was really like to 'go ...