Last Tommy Dies Aged 111

The last British Survivor of the trenches, Harry Patch, died at his care home in Somerset on Saturday morning. Harry's death comes just one week after the death of Henry Allingham and marks the end of an era in British history.

Only one other British survivor of World War I remains and that is Claude Choules who served in the Royal Navy and now lives in Australia.

Henry Allingham Crosses the Bar

Henry Allingham, the worlds oldest man and only one of two British survivors from World War One, died this morning at 03:10 hrs at St Dunstans care Home in Ovingdean.

In an interview with the Daily Mirror in 2006 , Henry was quoted as saying ...

"Whenever I saw people wearing poppies, it reminded me of my time in France when death and the fear of death was as near to me as the poppies growing in the fields.
Age has made my eyesight fail and I can no longer see the symbolic red flowers. But when someone near tells me they're wearing a poppy, I always ask if I can feel them. It's comforting to know that people are still paying their respects.
And that is all a poppy represents - respect. All this talk of wearing white poppies, red poppies and no poppy at all is getting away from the point. Pinning a poppy to your chest is a sign that you are remembering all those men who didn't want war, but volunteered anyway and had no idea of the horror and brutality they would face."

Henry, you will be sadly missed and although you wished for people to forget you I hope you will forgive us in paying tribute to you. You faced the same horrors as those who did not make it back and you kept their memory alive for future generations.

In remembering them...

We will Remember You.