Full Version: Harry Patch: Last British soldier from the Western Front
Harry Patch, the last British soldier left alive to have fought on the Western Front has died aged 111. Soon after the invasion of Iraq the British prime minister, tried to use Patch as a photo opportunity. Patch told Blair that "politicians who took us to war should have been given the guns and told to settle their differences themselves, instead of organising nothing better than legalised mass murder".
I have produced a page on Harry Patch and also Henry Allingham, who both died last week:
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/JFKpatchH.htm
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/FWWallingham.htm
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/JFKpatchH.htm
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/FWWallingham.htm
QUOTE (John Simkin @ Jul 27 2009, 06:57 PM) 
Harry Patch, the last British soldier left alive to have fought on the Western Front has died aged 111. Soon after the invasion of Iraq the British prime minister, tried to use Patch as a photo opportunity. Patch told Blair that "politicians who took us to war should have been given the guns and told to settle their differences themselves, instead of organising nothing better than legalised mass murder".
That statement of his is no less true about the wars since and the wars going on today! Some 'War to end all wars!' Ha!
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