fought for 8 days. He came out unscathed, unlike Patch and the last Alpine Front veteran, 110-year-old Delfino Borroni of Italy, who died on 26 October 2008. Patch was also the last surviving Tommy, since the death on 4 April 2009 of Netherwood Hughes, who was still in training when the war ended. The last-but-one fighting Tommy, Harold Lawton, died on 24 December 2005. Claude Choules, the last remaining First World War naval veteran, died on 5 May 2011. See also List of British supercentenarians List of the verified oldest people List of last surviving World War I veterans References External links Harry Patch in profile and Obituary (BBC) Daily Telegraph Obituary Guardian Obituary BBC News report of Patch's 108th birthday BBC News report of Patch's 109th birthday BBC News report of Patch's 110th birthday BBC News report of Patch's 111th birthday In Memory of Harry Patch – A poem by former Royal Marine Commando, Michael Browne "Harry Patch (In memory of)" by Radiohead, words inspired by an interview of Harry Patch's. BBC Radio 4 Today programme 1898 births 2009 deaths People from Bath, Somerset Combe Down Monkton Combe People from Wells, Somerset British Army personnel of World War I Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry soldiers British supercentenarians Men supercentenarians British Army soldiers Officiers of the Légion d'honneur Military personnel from Somerset Burials in Somerset