Celebrations for hero Harry
Tuesday 16th June 2009, 3:45PM BST.
Former Shropshire man Harry Patch – Britain’s last surviving Tommy and a national hero – celebrates his 111th birthday tomorrow.
After serving in World War One, Mr Patch married his first wife Ada in Hadley in 1919. He also lived in Church Stretton and Gobowen.
Mr Patch now lives in a Somerset care home and puts his long life down to clean living, saying: “I neither smoke, drink nor gamble. The three sins, leave them alone.”
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If you have not already read his book ‘ the last fighting Tommy’, I highly recomend you read it, a glimpse of his life and how it has changed.
This book will make you grateful for the freedom we now have.
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