Memorial

Harry Patch

Harry Patch commemorative plaque

Source: Copyright Mark Newton

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Current Location

Half way up the main staircase., Bath Guildhall, High Street, Bath, Bath, Avon, BA1 5AW, England

ST 75126 64855

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Type of Memorial: Board / Plaque / Tablet
WMR Reference Number: 66057
Description: A brass plaque. This is not a war memorial as such, as Harry Patch was famous for living through both World Wars and becoming the "Last Fighting Tommy". He died aged 111 in 2009 and in buried in Monkton Combe churchyard, Somerset.
Inscription: In Memory of Henry John "Harry" Patch / A Bathonian / 17th June 1898 - 25th July 2009 / The Last Surviving British War Veteran / to fight in the trenches / of World War I / "We will remember them"

War: First World War (1914-1918)
Number Commemorated: 1
Died: 1
Information shown: forename, surname, additional, date of birth, date of death

Plaque

Made from: Brass

Condition: Good

Backboard

Made from: Wood

Condition: Good

'Plaque honours WWI veteran Patch', 30 July 2009, BBC News website: [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/somerset/8175431.stm]