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They say that old soldiers never die but this one isn't even fading away.
Harry Patch, Britain's last survivor of the WWI trenches, has been celebrating his 111th birthday at his care home in Somerset.
BBC NEWS | UK | England | WWI veteran marks 111th birthday
Good on ya Harry. I hope you keep going forever.........!
ATVB
When the last one of these finally dies, everything written about the first world war thereafter is pure plagarism
I'm currently reading The Somme by Peter Hart. Excellent book! Reading through it, reading the quoted accounts from the soldiers and sailors (RND matelots fought there too) I am left with two foremost thoughts. One, it is absolutely miraculous that any of them survived to tell about it. Two, they were truly GIANTS of men.
May God bless Harry Patch and his mates one and all!
Also the last survivor of a cavalry charge.
I believe he also survived the Somme.:eek:
Maybe a "pure" cavalry charge..........but US Special Forces units were in on several cavalry charges with blade-waving and AK-firing Northern Alliance troops against the Taliban in 2001.......
Horses+men+weapons may be "obsolete" but it still happens even today.