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Title: Last British Tommy Dead.
Post by: Razgovory on July 25, 2009, 02:42:24 PM

http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/europe/07/25/uk.last.veteran.obit/index.html

Title: Re: Last British Tommy Dead.
Post by: Neil on July 25, 2009, 02:50:09 PM

The public has already forgotten about the Great War anyways. :(

Title: Re: Last British Tommy Dead.
Post by: DisturbedPervert on July 25, 2009, 03:14:07 PM

Interview on bbc

http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars/wwone/last_tommy_gallery_03.shtml

Title: Re: Last British Tommy Dead.
Post by: Josephus on July 25, 2009, 05:06:31 PM

Quote from: Neil on July 25, 2009, 02:50:09 PM
The public has already forgotten about the Great War anyways. :(

Cause the games aren't as sexy :(

QuotePatch was born on June 17, 1898, in Combe Down, Somerset county.

After the war, he returned to his trade as a plumber and married a young woman he had met while recovering from his wounds, Britain's ministry of defence said.

They were married in 1919 and had two sons. His wife died in 1976 and his sons have also predeceased him. He married again in 1980 and his second wife died in 1984.

This guy, who was born on the same day as me (68 years earlier, though] lived quite the life.
If my math is correct, the guy married for the second time when he was 78. Here's to ya Private Patch :worthy: :worthy:

Title: Re: Last British Tommy Dead.
Post by: dps on July 25, 2009, 07:03:44 PM

Quote from: Josephus on July 25, 2009, 05:06:31 PM
Quote from: Neil on July 25, 2009, 02:50:09 PM
The public has already forgotten about the Great War anyways. :(

Cause the games aren't as sexy :(

QuotePatch was born on June 17, 1898, in Combe Down, Somerset county.

After the war, he returned to his trade as a plumber and married a young woman he had met while recovering from his wounds, Britain's ministry of defence said.

They were married in 1919 and had two sons. His wife died in 1976 and his sons have also predeceased him. He married again in 1980 and his second wife died in 1984.

This guy, who was born on the same day as me (68 years earlier, though] lived quite the life.
If my math is correct, the guy married for the second time when he was 78. Here's to ya Private Patch :worthy: :worthy:

Your math ain't right. Try 82.

Title: Re: Last British Tommy Dead.
Post by: BuddhaRhubarb on July 25, 2009, 07:30:28 PM

Quote from: Neil on July 25, 2009, 02:50:09 PM
The public has already forgotten about the Great War anyways. :(

Not in Canada we haven't. That's our War :canuck:

Title: Re: Last British Tommy Dead.
Post by: The Brain on July 26, 2009, 02:44:56 AM

Live by the sword, die by the sword.

Title: Re: Last British Tommy Dead.
Post by: jimmy olsen on July 26, 2009, 09:55:55 AM

RIP :bowler:

Title: Re: Last British Tommy Dead.
Post by: Sheilbh on July 26, 2009, 10:02:52 AM

It's sad to see the last of that generation go. The WW2 veterans are starting to dwindle on Armistice Day too :(

QuoteThe public has already forgotten about the Great War anyways. :(

Not in the UK. The First World War has more cultural impact and resonance here than any other war (considerably more than WW2).

Title: Re: Last British Tommy Dead.
Post by: Richard Hakluyt on July 26, 2009, 03:42:45 PM

I really like(ed) the generation of people who were born and brought up before WW1.

Far less bs than their successors.

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