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Article: Poppies fill the sky as West war veteran Harry launches appeal ; The last surviving British soldier to fight in the trenches of World War I joined Navy personnel yesterday to launch the Royal British Legion Poppy Appeal.
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- Western Daily Press (Bristol UK)
- Article date:
- October 30, 2008
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The last surviving British soldier to fight in the trenches of
World War I joined Navy personnel yesterday to launch the Royal
British Legion Poppy Appeal.
West hero Harry Patch, 110, opened the appeal as the Legion
revealed they have seen the number of young serviceman needing their
help more than double in the past year.
Mr Patch, who lives in a care home in Wells, is Britain's last
Tommy.
He is the second oldest person in Britain and is the last
surviving British soldier to have served in the third battle of
Ypres, the battle of Passchendaele, in which more than 70,000
British troops died.
Yesterday, he was joined by Falklands War veteran Simon Weston
OBE on board HMS Somerset for a ...