(1898-06-17)17 June 1898 Combe Down, Somerset, England
Died
(2009-07-25)25 July 2009 (aged 111 years, 38 days) Wells, Somerset, England
Buried
St Michael's Church, Monkton Combe
Allegiance
United Kingdom
Service/branch
British Army
British Expeditionary Force
Years of service
1916–1918
Rank
Lance corporal Private (after demotion)
Service number
29295
Unit
Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry
Battles/wars
First World War
Western Front
Battle of Passchendaele (WIA)
Awards
See medals
Spouse(s)
Ada Billington (m. 1919; d. 1976)
Kathleen Joy (m. 1982; d. 1989)
Doris Whittaker (1998; d. 2007)
Children
2
Henry John Patch (17 June 1898 – 25 July 2009), dubbed in his later years "the Last Fighting Tommy", was an English supercentenarian, briefly the oldest man in Europe, and the last surviving trench combat soldier of the First World War from any country.[1] Patch was not the longest-surviving soldier of the First World War, but he was the fifth-longest-surviving veteran of any sort from the First World War, behind British veterans Claude Choules and Florence Green, Frank Buckles of the United States and John Babcock of Canada.[2] At the time of his death, aged 111 years and 38 days, Patch was the third-oldest man in the world, behind Walter Breuning and Jiroemon Kimura.
^"WWI veteran Patch dies aged 111". BBC News. 25 July 2009. Retrieved 5 January 2010.
^"Last Living Veterans". First World War in the News. Archived from the original on 14 July 2014. Retrieved 9 July 2014.
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Global Information
United Kingdom
British Army
Lance corporal