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Rolando patch

British soldier, last soldier to serve in the trenches of World War I

PersonDied aged 111humanQ363644

Also known as Henry John Patch

Born: June 17, 1898
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1.Stated in IMDbRetrieved 2015-10-14
2.Stated in Find a GraveRetrieved 2017-10-09
3.Stated in Encyclopaedia MetallumRetrieved 2017-10-09
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Died: July 25, 2009
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2.Stated in IMDbRetrieved 2015-10-14
3.Stated in Find a GraveRetrieved 2017-10-09
4.Stated in Encyclopaedia MetallumRetrieved 2017-10-09
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Birthplace: Combe Down
Place of death: Wells
Citizenship: United Kingdom
Occupation: military personnel
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1.Stated in Integrated Authority FileRetrieved 2015-03-30
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Languages spoken, written or signed: English
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1.Stated in BnF authoritiesdata.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb15794171pRetrieved 2015-10-10
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Henry John Patch, dubbed in his later years "the Last Fighting Tommy", was an English supercentenarian, briefly the oldest man in Europe, and the world's last surviving trench combat soldier of the First World War. Patch was not the longest-surviving soldier of the First World War, but he was the fifth-longest-surviving veteran of any sort from the First World War, behind British veterans Claude Choules and Florence Green, Frank Buckles of the United States and John Babcock of Canada. At the time of his death, aged 111 years and 38 days, Patch was the fourth-oldest man in the world, behind Walter Breuning, Horacio Celi Mendoza, and Jiroemon Kimura.

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