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Every year since then Harry would remember that day. Harry said it was just the most depressing place on earth, hell with a lid on," he said. Arthur said the horrors of Passchendaele stayed with Patch throughout his life. Patch exhibited the signs of post-traumatic stress and even opening a fridge and being confronted by its interior light sometimes became a "traumatic experience, the light resembling an explosion".
After the war, Patch returned to his trade as a plumber and married Ada, whom he had met while convalescing. They were married in and had two children, Dennis and Roy. His wife died in and his sons have also since died.
Any one of them could have been me. Millions of men came to fight in this war and I find it incredible that I am the only one left. In November , at the age of , he met Charles Kuentz , [13] a year-old Alsatian veteran who had fought on the German side at the battlefield of Passchendaele and served on the French side in World War II.
Patch was quoted as saying: "I was a bit doubtful before meeting a German soldier. Herr Kuentz is a very nice gentleman however. He is all for a united Europe and peace — and so am I".
Kuentz had brought along a tin of Alsatian biscuits and Patch gave him a bottle of Somerset cider in return. In December , Patch was given a present of bottles of Patch's Pride Cider, which has been named after him and produced by the Gaymer Cider Company.
War isn't worth one life". In July , Patch voiced his outrage over plans to build a motorway in northern France over cemeteries of the First World War. On 16 December , Patch was awarded an honorary degree by the University of Bristol, [17] whose buildings he helped construct in the s.
He was chosen for this honour as he was a member of the workforce that originally helped build the tower, which was opened on 9 June by King George V , an event which Patch also attended. In July , marking the 90th anniversary of the beginning of the Battle of Passchendaele, in which he fought, Patch revisited the site of the battle in Flanders to pay his respects to the fallen on both sides of the conflict. He was accompanied by historian Richard van Emden.
On this occasion, Patch described war as the "calculated and condoned slaughter of human beings" and said that "war isn't worth one life. In August , Patch's autobiography The Last Fighting Tommy was published, making him one of the oldest authors ever.
On 27 September , in a private ceremony attended by just a few people, Patch opened a memorial on the bank of the Steenbeek at the point where he crossed the river in The memorial reads:- "Here, at dawn, on 16 August , the 7th Battalion, Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry , 20th Light division, crossed the Steenbeek prior to their successful assault on the village on Langemarck.
This stone is erected to the memory of fallen comrades, and to honour the courage, sacrifice and passing of the Great War generation. On 18 July , on the death of Henry Allingham , Patch became the oldest surviving veteran and also the oldest man in the United Kingdom.
The penultimate Western Front veteran, the year-old Fernand Goux of France, who died on 9 November , fought for 8 days. He came out unscathed, unlike Patch and the last Alpine Front veteran, year-old Delfino Borroni of Italy, who died on 26 October Patch was also the last surviving Tommy , since the death on 4 April of Netherwood Hughes , who was still in training when the war ended.
The penultimate fighting Tommy, Andrew Rigby, died on 9 June , the week before Patch's th birthday. We came across a lad from A company. He was ripped open from his shoulder to his waist by shrapnel and lying in a pool of blood. When we got to him, he said: 'Shoot me'.
He was beyond human help and, before we could draw a revolver, he was dead. And the final word he uttered was 'Mother. It's an image that has haunted me all my life, seared into my mind. The award was presented to Patch on his st birthday. He received the award from Jean-Michel Veranneman de Watervliet, Belgium's Ambassador to the United Kingdom at a ceremony in the Ambassador's residence in London on 22 September , which coincidentally was the 91st anniversary of the day he was wounded in action , and three of his closest friends killed.
This was subsequently lost and, on 20 September , at a ceremony at Bath Fire Station, Patch was presented with a replacement medal. Patch also received two commemorative medals: the National Service Medal and the Hors de combat medal, which signifies outstanding bravery of servicemen and women who have sustained wounds or injury in the line of duty These medals however, are unofficial and not a part of the official order of wear in any Commonwealth realm.
Patch died at 9 am on 25 July , aged years, one month, one week and one day.
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