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Article: A monumental farewell to Britain's last World War I vet; Britain's last W.W. I veteran receives monumental farewell
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- International Herald Tribune
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- August 8, 2009
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John F Burns
International Herald Tribune
08-08-2009
A monumental farewell to Britain's last World War I vet; Britain's last W.W. I veteran receives monumental farewell
Byline: John F Burns
Type: News
In his later years, Harry Patch took as his central themes the futility of war and the common humanity of soldiers who meet as enemies on the battlefield.
Harry Patch was past his 100th birthday before he began speaking out about the horrors he endured as a machine gunner in Flanders in World War I, when he survived the fighting at Ypres that was among the bloodiest in a war that took the lives of nearly 900,000 men from Britain and its colonies.
When Mr. Patch finally broke 80 years of ...