anyone knows about the last austro-hungarian soldier, to have fought in ww1? or the last bulgarian? maybe the last turkish? or the last russian? maybe the last african soldier in the colonies? the last japanese soldier?I don´think so, but if , please tell me the names
A truly great and wise man. The world needs more men like Harry and fewer politicians. With all the carnage around him he stuck to his ethics that "thou shall not kill" and thereby chose compassion over vengeance for his fallen comrades and that is a great mark of humanity and decency. Rest in peace Harry, you deserve it.
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I don't know what it was like, but my great-graps would. He fought at Passchendaele, 26 Battalion CEF. His brother was killed there. Hard to think that if he had made a false step I wouldn't be here today. Strange thing.
@rebirth3X Because some people who live in their comfortable lives are not grateful and basically don't give a shit about people like this man. They think events of the past is of no concern to them and aren't interseted, I for one as many others am thankful of the bravery Patch showed in going over the top in an atrocious war. God bless all brave people that have gave the ultimate sacrifice in the name of war.
Harry Patch was the last soldier. Henry Allingham was the last airman. Bill Stone was the last sailor. I remember seeing the three of them laying their wreaths on November 11th the year before they all died.
The soldiers looked forward to it at the time, and fighting in an army, for a 'cause' satisfies something deep in us. And countless wars have followed, and we still can't get enough. Resources, national pride, personal honor can mingle to suit the ends of power. What a sham, and yet we know nothing else as if we have no choice every time. Perhaps Playstation can save us?
Although I come from an extremely proud family of servicemen, I find it sad to see how this man is remembered.
In his book, The Last Fighting Tommy, (dictated by himself) he states that he did not want to be remembered as a soldier, just a man. Some may see this as him being modest, turning down the title of hero (that IMO he deserves, as do all men who fought) but I see it as him trying to escape the war. It saddened me to see him receive a military funeral which he did not want.
@BassDudeBear - I also have read the book. I was disapointed that his real life did not reflect media hype. In comparison to other soldiers he was a reluctant member of the forces and i was disapointed that he shammed, illness and was part of a mutiny. he spent a total of 4 months in the front line and refused to kill the enemy. I understand his unwillingness to be viewed as a hero. Although very trying times, there were hundreds of men who are more deserving of his noteriety.
Our lovely ''local Hero Harry Patch..he lived in an old people's home, and even when the fluorescent light got switched on in the cupboard next to his room, th einitial ''flickerings' when he was half asleep took him back to the battlefield..in the few seconds he thought it was an exploding shell..Rest in Peace with your Pals, Harry.xxx
What really angers me is when us americans joined up we prolonged the great war thus thousands more died just because of the united states. Still i am glad we went cause I never would of scene some of the great fields of war if my great great grandfather gone. He died years later but wished to be burid with his fallen comrades.
My opinion is that the Great War is the greatest catastrophe in recent history. We are still suffering from it's blowback, (From WW2 to September 11th, all of it was the end result of the Great War)
Rest in Peach Harry. My grandfather, Co. B, 128th Infantry, 32nd Division, AEF, fought in several of the climatic battles of 1918. He was gassed in the Meuse-Argonne a week before the Armistice and eventually died from complications caused by the gas.
I would have loved to meet this guy. Both of my great grandad's died in WWI, 1 in in 1914 at the Marne and the other was wounded in 1916 at the Somme and died a few years later in 1918 from pneumonia and infections :(
@thatkindofguy234 I've no idea about my great grandad's. One of them was deaf and couldn't fight, and the other one I'll probably never know. But I do know that both of my grandad's fought in the Last Great War/WWII.
My great grandfather enlisted in the german army at the age of 16. He was sent to verdun where he survived the entire war. According to him, there were one dead german soldier per square meter. Never forget the soldiers who fought and died in this meaningless struggle for power people, and I mean in both WW1 and WW2 regardless what nationality they had.
it is said that, people who fought in WW1 and WW2, saw stuff that was so traumatizing, they nowadays got bad cases of alzheymer's disease, they dont even remember their children, but they remember the war with great details.
My grandad was 18 when he fought on the Somme. He captured a German machine gunners' nest. He would never talk about the war. The memories were too horrific. His elder brother, who left a young wife and child, is buried at Ypres and grandad and two other older brothers, one of whom had severe gunshot wounds to his face, survived and returned to Lincolnshire and Nottinghamshire to marry and bring up families. How many would make this sacrifice today?
@SuperRosie123 We aren't fighting for the same cause. We were fighting for freedom. But If I HAD too, I probably would. But not for this Iraq peace keeping stuff =/ We are fighting someone else's war ..
Respect too your grandad man. May he rest in piece. He helped this country reach the light at the end of tunnel .
@BiggyInHD You're right; we are fighting the war of big corporations. WW1 was no different. The good guy bad guy stuff is pure childish fantasy. Countries of both sides....funded the militaries of countries of both sides. What does that tell you
My grandad was 18 when he fought on the Somme. He captured a German machine gunners' nest. He would never talk about the war. The memories were too horrific. His elder brother, who left a young wife and child, is buried at Ypres and grandad and two other older brothers, one of whom had severe gunshot wounds to his face, survived and returned to Lincolnshire and Nottinghamshire to marry and bring up families. How many would make this sacrifice today?
I have been to several sites where heavy fighting took place in WW1 and this has made a great impact on me.
My age is 35 and I have obviously not been around during the 1e and 2e WW but literally every day I think about the enormous large numbers of soldiers that suffered and died during the wars.
I try to make my life as good and meaningfull as possible because I feel that I owe this to the soldiers of many nations that died for our freedom .
It is just so unthinkable this all happened on the ground so close to me now.
Many last thoughts of thousands of people who died there happened there. You just can never never never ever imagine what it was out there. Thinkin' about 18, 20 years of happiness and then to be set into a hell without any meaning.
just read harrys book. the last fighting tommy. i was close to tears when i realised such an unassuming man went through the horrors of ww1. truly a great man. rip harry and thankyou.
@1922sultan What was so honorable about him? He fought in a war that lined the pockets of bankers and butchered a whole generation a men. They fought and died for nothing. They weren't defending their homes. They weren't defending their sacred honor. They were butchering each other because they weren't smart enough to realize that it was a stupid fucking war. They were told to kill guys they easily could have had a beer in peacetime with. I'm sorry, I don't buy the bullshit of honoring them.
you are quite the awful person aren't you? Don't bitch about the soldiers if you're mad get mad at the government this man is very honorable ! and you aren't
@edisonphonographfan According to what standard are their actions honorable? Give me definitions. Don't just banter about "honor" like we all agree on what constitutes it. I don't buy the argument that because leaders tell you to do something you are not morally liable for your actions. So, I want you to define under what system of ethics this Harry Patch's actions can be considered "honorable". Or, just keep spewing that "honor the soldier" crap that those same gov. leaders want you to believe
Well he certainly was brave to go off and fight like that while you just sit at home and hide behind your computer screen trying to get attention by being a total asshole
Of course the war was pointless i know that but regardless thats not the soldiers fault its the governments
soldiers did what they were called upon to do and find that honorable
Honor High respect shown for a special merit or esteem.
@edisonphonographfan I was in the military for 4 years so don't give me this sit at home and hiding bullshit. So you define honor as doing what the government calls you to do in time of war? What about Mao's soldier's who butchered millions of their own people? What about the Japanese that butchered millions of Chinese during WW2? What about the Soviet soldiers who were called upon to guard the gulag death camps? What about the Roman soldiers who butchered each other during the Roman Civil.....
@edisonphonographfan Haha. That is too funny. So when I bring up examples of soldiers doing reprehensible things because the government told them to do it, your response is the intellectual equivalent of burying your head in the sand. Your response sounds an awful lot like those politicians who kept sending those poor boys to their deaths on the battlefields of WW1. Don't articulate why your definition of honor is well thought out. Over the top boys, its the honorable thing to do!!!
@fostersfibs War for the power of rich oligarchs? Do I need to continue with the examples? I think you have serious flaws in your understanding of ethics which betrays your gross ignorance of history and your limited capacity to reason independently of what the contemporary narrative tells you to think.
One, of many things that was admirable about Mr Patch was his insistence that war was not glorious or honourbale, rather it was bloody and pointless. His refusal to allow his funeral to be a state funeral was a calculated snub. Well done old boy.
@MultiGermanPower When you count wounded who later died, and missing you get about 16 million dead. Add in civilian and you get about 22-26 million dead.
@MultiGermanPower my history teacher is a load of crap but thats what shes told me and ive seen that on videos and so on but ill tell her 9.5, it might have been deaths, casualties and missing soldiers, thanks for correcting me anyway :)
A man who survived the war and lived a long life, When he said war was senseless that tory general tried to imply he was a bit passed it and out of touch.
poor man, he seems so gentle, not the leaset bit war like and he lays poppies for those who could have killed him♥ what a great me harry was- only if everyone was like him xxx
your an amazing man, if you weere still alive, i would give you flowers and a hug and a kiss♥ my great grandfather fought for england in the war, he survived he didn't evevn get wounded (luckly) he never ate corn beef again cause thats what they had in the trenches.
May God bless you Harry, the last Tommy. You are a true gentleman. You have gone and joined the ranks of a generation who fought through a living hell so we may have our freedom. Eternally grateful to you and your fallen comrades. Rest easy and rest in peace. Thank you.
Thank you Harry and i mean it from the bottom of my heart. You and your generation will never be forgotten. Truly 1 of the 2 Greatest Generations to have graced this country.
Sir, God bless you and all those who fought for this country. So sad it was a wasted effort. My own Father fought in WW2 and even he wonders what benefits we got from it when heroes who return from battle these days get spat on and abused. Disgusting waste of life. The balance needs redressing, now.
Always amazing to hear people born in th19th century talking about their memories. When these guys were young there were kings and emperors ruleing most western nations, sailing ships on the seas, and only horses on the "roads". Truly living links to history!
wow im blown away to meet him would be a total honor!!! the life that man has seen ......... god rest your soul harry you are a true hero and we will never forget you and the brave men that fought in the 1st great war .we love you and thank you for your sacrifice !!
"War is the calculated and condoned slaughter of human beings."
Why can't we listen to the people who have lived through these tragedies? We all feel we're so clever, so in the right, we who have never experienced the worst our species has to offer. The comparisons of statistics going on below is at best inconsequential and at worst obscene.
i wish the soldiers in iraq would listen to this guy, it's a shame to say but a lot of the people want to join the army bcos they think it's a like a video game!
Who was the WWI veteran who died age 107 and was still quite able. I can remember watching him on TV and was impressed at how agile and healthy he was for a man of over a century old. Just because you are old does NOT mean you will be weak and fragile, I met a centenarian once and she was quite healthy. My grandma is almost 80 and SO independent. The man I'm talking about could still walk quite easily towards the memorial to place a wreath.
@walkabout09 you are so right lions i remember watching the march past as a kid on rememberance day and the strrets full of ww1 servivers but they just got less and less and now look none at all may god blees each and every one of them
WW1: such a tragedy. So many brave & dedicated men, Allied & German, mindlessly slaughtered for no meaningful reason. They all deserved to live, raise families & grow old in peace. No leader on either side valued the lives of their soldiers. Both the Allied and German soldiers would have been better off if they had just slaughtered their own political & military leaders instead of each other. WW1 would have been over in 2 weeks with just a few 1000 dead.
That man and like others bring a tear to my eye....Me and this generation are nothing but complete lay abouts wanting money of the government witch they men fought and died for us......Least i can say what's really going on they don't make them like they used to....NEVER
I disagree. The soldiers had no choice in obeying orders to go over; otherwise they would have been shot on the spot. This was the reason officers carried revolvers; the officers revolver wasn’t a weapon to fight the enemy but to shoot, in the officers view (not mine) “cowards”.
That was the policy of the british army, what isnt publicised as much is the same rule applied to the german forces. The officer stood behind the machine gun nest and would shoot if the soldier did not pull the trigger.
I saw an interview years ago with a german maxim gunner, he said that when the officer was stood behind him with pistol in his hand, he was grateful for the tears that filled his eyes as he couldnt see to shoot the british soldiers forced to walk across no mans land.
My Great Grand Father died on 23 September 1917 in the 3rd Battle of Ypres, known as Passchendaele, and is buried in Locre Hospice Cemetery, Private 24489 Thomas Kellett, my hero, and a comrade of Harry's, like 250,000 others who died in that 100 day battle.
@mr9396 Representing my people, the people of The United States, I salute you as well, Harry along with the millions of others who gave what you did to protect us. You are not forgotten.
Poor guy, that war was a complete and utter waste of human life.
JustStaringOutWindow 20 hours ago
Pte Fred Walton, Royal Warwickshire Regt, my great granddad, would never speak of the war and refused to ever travel abroad again. RIP brave lads
Anangasnake 1 week ago
anyone knows about the last austro-hungarian soldier, to have fought in ww1? or the last bulgarian? maybe the last turkish? or the last russian? maybe the last african soldier in the colonies? the last japanese soldier?I don´think so, but if , please tell me the names
xyvvz 4 weeks ago
The next war britian is dragged into, let the politicians fight it.
mr9396 1 month ago
i live in passendale (passchendaele) and the tyne cot cemetry is verry close to my house
rexotron243 1 month ago
what a remarkable man.
chillipeanuts 1 month ago
A truly great and wise man. The world needs more men like Harry and fewer politicians. With all the carnage around him he stuck to his ethics that "thou shall not kill" and thereby chose compassion over vengeance for his fallen comrades and that is a great mark of humanity and decency. Rest in peace Harry, you deserve it.
pixelfascination 2 months ago
@Stupidfaes sorry man u got that wrong lol
robertcooperfication 2 months ago
canadians*
Stupidfaes 2 months ago
Rest in peace old soldier,lest we forget,proper HERO.
urbankhat65 2 months ago
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I don't know what it was like, but my great-graps would. He fought at Passchendaele, 26 Battalion CEF. His brother was killed there. Hard to think that if he had made a false step I wouldn't be here today. Strange thing.
Litterboxer529 3 months ago
Why would anyone click on "dislike"!!
rebirth3X 3 months ago
@rebirth3X Because some people who live in their comfortable lives are not grateful and basically don't give a shit about people like this man. They think events of the past is of no concern to them and aren't interseted, I for one as many others am thankful of the bravery Patch showed in going over the top in an atrocious war. God bless all brave people that have gave the ultimate sacrifice in the name of war.
mordig 2 months ago
Harry Patch was the last soldier. Henry Allingham was the last airman. Bill Stone was the last sailor. I remember seeing the three of them laying their wreaths on November 11th the year before they all died.
johnpindar 3 months ago 4
@johnpindar I was there to, were you near that twat of a camera man who decided to get his ladder out in the 2 minute silence?
Sterlingjob 4 weeks ago
henry allingham was the last known survivor actually
DEMONFREAK93 3 months ago
Hitler fought in this battle. He was 28
PapagenoJuan2 4 months ago
@edisonphonographfan What's up with that retard saying we shouldn't respect our own soldiers?
berserker276 4 months ago
@360Nomad About 2 years ago I think. A week after Henry Allingham died, or it might've been a week before that/I always get them mixed up.
berserker276 4 months ago
When did Harry Patch die?
360Nomad 4 months ago
The soldiers looked forward to it at the time, and fighting in an army, for a 'cause' satisfies something deep in us. And countless wars have followed, and we still can't get enough. Resources, national pride, personal honor can mingle to suit the ends of power. What a sham, and yet we know nothing else as if we have no choice every time. Perhaps Playstation can save us?
mistersmith6000 4 months ago
Although I come from an extremely proud family of servicemen, I find it sad to see how this man is remembered.
In his book, The Last Fighting Tommy, (dictated by himself) he states that he did not want to be remembered as a soldier, just a man. Some may see this as him being modest, turning down the title of hero (that IMO he deserves, as do all men who fought) but I see it as him trying to escape the war. It saddened me to see him receive a military funeral which he did not want.
BassDudeBear 4 months ago
@BassDudeBear - I also have read the book. I was disapointed that his real life did not reflect media hype. In comparison to other soldiers he was a reluctant member of the forces and i was disapointed that he shammed, illness and was part of a mutiny. he spent a total of 4 months in the front line and refused to kill the enemy. I understand his unwillingness to be viewed as a hero. Although very trying times, there were hundreds of men who are more deserving of his noteriety.
BritAU2TH 3 months ago
How can you argue about a war. War is bad, and you two below me are just saying it in different ways.
jan3601 4 months ago
god bless you harry my beautifull older brother,peace shall abound you, you have suffered enough.
stratcat70 4 months ago
i cried when i saw this i dont want any more to died :(
TheLiamom 4 months ago
Our lovely ''local Hero Harry Patch..he lived in an old people's home, and even when the fluorescent light got switched on in the cupboard next to his room, th einitial ''flickerings' when he was half asleep took him back to the battlefield..in the few seconds he thought it was an exploding shell..Rest in Peace with your Pals, Harry.xxx
Oakleaf700 5 months ago
What really angers me is when us americans joined up we prolonged the great war thus thousands more died just because of the united states. Still i am glad we went cause I never would of scene some of the great fields of war if my great great grandfather gone. He died years later but wished to be burid with his fallen comrades.
Rambonii 5 months ago in playlist world war 1
I have heard it said that the Second World War should really be called the Great War Part Two.
johnpindar 6 months ago
@johnpindar The Last Great War.
berserker276 4 months ago
My opinion is that the Great War is the greatest catastrophe in recent history. We are still suffering from it's blowback, (From WW2 to September 11th, all of it was the end result of the Great War)
cripplehawk 6 months ago
lol harry patch
powerrangersr 6 months ago
For you, Harry, and your freinds who served, I raise my arm a salut, And cry. Thankyou. R.i.p Harry.
Jakk325 6 months ago
Rest in Peach Harry. My grandfather, Co. B, 128th Infantry, 32nd Division, AEF, fought in several of the climatic battles of 1918. He was gassed in the Meuse-Argonne a week before the Armistice and eventually died from complications caused by the gas.
uwlarry1 7 months ago 2
PVT J schmitt, 2BTN AIF, died at Gallipoli aged 20. I have his WW1 medals, given to me by his grandson before he died.
20 years old, I'm 40 and have not faced even a fraction of the horrors he did at his tender young age.
"When You Go Home, Tell Them Of Us And Say,
For Their Tomorrow, We Gave Our Today"
96rottie 7 months ago 7
65 million ppl die in ww2
House4848 7 months ago
I would have loved to meet this guy. Both of my great grandad's died in WWI, 1 in in 1914 at the Marne and the other was wounded in 1916 at the Somme and died a few years later in 1918 from pneumonia and infections :(
thatkindofguy234 8 months ago
@thatkindofguy234 Such honerable men, my great-grandfather died in the battle of the somme
2012datefordiary 7 months ago
@thatkindofguy234 I've no idea about my great grandad's. One of them was deaf and couldn't fight, and the other one I'll probably never know. But I do know that both of my grandad's fought in the Last Great War/WWII.
berserker276 4 months ago
where could i find those panoramic pics and the aerial photos in this video?
cheers
r32shift 9 months ago
i think my grand grand dad fougth in WW1 >> but iam sure he isnt the last :/
1233dragon1233 9 months ago
respect sir.
simplyguys 10 months ago
My great grandfather enlisted in the german army at the age of 16. He was sent to verdun where he survived the entire war. According to him, there were one dead german soldier per square meter. Never forget the soldiers who fought and died in this meaningless struggle for power people, and I mean in both WW1 and WW2 regardless what nationality they had.
Senapsjonny 10 months ago 19
LEGDEND
oBaboonMano 10 months ago
it is said that, people who fought in WW1 and WW2, saw stuff that was so traumatizing, they nowadays got bad cases of alzheymer's disease, they dont even remember their children, but they remember the war with great details.
EduardoElSexypants 10 months ago
@EduardoElSexypants they are all gone now noone left harry died last year
rob4b 10 months ago
@rob4b Harry was last BRITTISH soldier, a canadian soldier from WW1 is still alive, and there are still a fuckton of World war 2 veterans.
EduardoElSexypants 10 months ago
@EduardoElSexypants what you on about i was talking ww1 not 2, what is the name of the canadian soldier?
rob4b 10 months ago
@rob4b nevermind lol he was named babcock but he died in february..
EduardoElSexypants 10 months ago
wow if he still remembered this 90 years after it happened it must have been more traumatic than anyone can imagine...
Monstercatch 10 months ago
My grandad was 18 when he fought on the Somme. He captured a German machine gunners' nest. He would never talk about the war. The memories were too horrific. His elder brother, who left a young wife and child, is buried at Ypres and grandad and two other older brothers, one of whom had severe gunshot wounds to his face, survived and returned to Lincolnshire and Nottinghamshire to marry and bring up families. How many would make this sacrifice today?
SuperRosie123 10 months ago
@SuperRosie123 We aren't fighting for the same cause. We were fighting for freedom. But If I HAD too, I probably would. But not for this Iraq peace keeping stuff =/ We are fighting someone else's war ..
Respect too your grandad man. May he rest in piece. He helped this country reach the light at the end of tunnel .
BiggyInHD 10 months ago
@BiggyInHD You're right; we are fighting the war of big corporations. WW1 was no different. The good guy bad guy stuff is pure childish fantasy. Countries of both sides....funded the militaries of countries of both sides. What does that tell you
MrMorg19 9 months ago
My grandad was 18 when he fought on the Somme. He captured a German machine gunners' nest. He would never talk about the war. The memories were too horrific. His elder brother, who left a young wife and child, is buried at Ypres and grandad and two other older brothers, one of whom had severe gunshot wounds to his face, survived and returned to Lincolnshire and Nottinghamshire to marry and bring up families. How many would make this sacrifice today?
SuperRosie123 10 months ago
I have been to several sites where heavy fighting took place in WW1 and this has made a great impact on me.
My age is 35 and I have obviously not been around during the 1e and 2e WW but literally every day I think about the enormous large numbers of soldiers that suffered and died during the wars.
I try to make my life as good and meaningfull as possible because I feel that I owe this to the soldiers of many nations that died for our freedom .
I feel the utmost of respect for these people.
Freedayisland 11 months ago
It is just so unthinkable this all happened on the ground so close to me now.
Many last thoughts of thousands of people who died there happened there. You just can never never never ever imagine what it was out there. Thinkin' about 18, 20 years of happiness and then to be set into a hell without any meaning.
BrugesFan23 11 months ago
That man was the best hero this world has ever seen i respect you sir harry patch :)
G13NSTAA 11 months ago
impressive
evropanzeu 11 months ago
Betcha he never thought that he'd ddie of old age.
Spankydaham924 11 months ago 2
Lest We Forget
MapleBalls 11 months ago
How can anyone thumb down what this man has to say! R.I.P Harry and your comrades the world over.
apollo8972 11 months ago
wait...he was the LAST veteran of the entire world war? wow
Pier2pie 1 year ago
A true hero he should have been buried alongside the kings and queens of england
workingclassbum 1 year ago
Would that someday it would be the last veteran of the last war ever. God bless him.
dacanale 1 year ago 2
Mr Patch was a true hero and role model unlike todays celebrities and footballers. RIP
Nightrain8 1 year ago
just read harrys book. the last fighting tommy. i was close to tears when i realised such an unassuming man went through the horrors of ww1. truly a great man. rip harry and thankyou.
8clarets 1 year ago
A greatly honorable warior.
TheWaarivzrach 1 year ago
A truly honorable man. God rest your soul Harry.
1922sultan 1 year ago 72
@1922sultan What was so honorable about him? He fought in a war that lined the pockets of bankers and butchered a whole generation a men. They fought and died for nothing. They weren't defending their homes. They weren't defending their sacred honor. They were butchering each other because they weren't smart enough to realize that it was a stupid fucking war. They were told to kill guys they easily could have had a beer in peacetime with. I'm sorry, I don't buy the bullshit of honoring them.
fostersfibs 6 months ago
@fostersfibs
you are quite the awful person aren't you? Don't bitch about the soldiers if you're mad get mad at the government this man is very honorable ! and you aren't
edisonphonographfan 4 months ago
@edisonphonographfan According to what standard are their actions honorable? Give me definitions. Don't just banter about "honor" like we all agree on what constitutes it. I don't buy the argument that because leaders tell you to do something you are not morally liable for your actions. So, I want you to define under what system of ethics this Harry Patch's actions can be considered "honorable". Or, just keep spewing that "honor the soldier" crap that those same gov. leaders want you to believe
fostersfibs 4 months ago
@fostersfibs
Well he certainly was brave to go off and fight like that while you just sit at home and hide behind your computer screen trying to get attention by being a total asshole
Of course the war was pointless i know that but regardless thats not the soldiers fault its the governments
soldiers did what they were called upon to do and find that honorable
Honor High respect shown for a special merit or esteem.
edisonphonographfan 4 months ago
@edisonphonographfan I was in the military for 4 years so don't give me this sit at home and hiding bullshit. So you define honor as doing what the government calls you to do in time of war? What about Mao's soldier's who butchered millions of their own people? What about the Japanese that butchered millions of Chinese during WW2? What about the Soviet soldiers who were called upon to guard the gulag death camps? What about the Roman soldiers who butchered each other during the Roman Civil.....
fostersfibs 4 months ago
@fostersfibs
I'm done arguing i honor soldiers regardless of what you say
edisonphonographfan 4 months ago
@edisonphonographfan Haha. That is too funny. So when I bring up examples of soldiers doing reprehensible things because the government told them to do it, your response is the intellectual equivalent of burying your head in the sand. Your response sounds an awful lot like those politicians who kept sending those poor boys to their deaths on the battlefields of WW1. Don't articulate why your definition of honor is well thought out. Over the top boys, its the honorable thing to do!!!
fostersfibs 4 months ago
@fostersfibs War for the power of rich oligarchs? Do I need to continue with the examples? I think you have serious flaws in your understanding of ethics which betrays your gross ignorance of history and your limited capacity to reason independently of what the contemporary narrative tells you to think.
fostersfibs 4 months ago
One, of many things that was admirable about Mr Patch was his insistence that war was not glorious or honourbale, rather it was bloody and pointless. His refusal to allow his funeral to be a state funeral was a calculated snub. Well done old boy.
wolfandcub0070 1 year ago 3
Harry Patch is a real hero going to a German cemetery! In the end they are all victims of war.
pieterjanoddens 1 year ago
RIP Harry
dignhope 1 year ago
@adam4bfc 9.5m killed (and mabye some missing) in ww1..but 72m dead in ww2 though
MultiGermanPower 1 year ago
@MultiGermanPower When you count wounded who later died, and missing you get about 16 million dead. Add in civilian and you get about 22-26 million dead.
KaiserReich98 1 year ago
@MultiGermanPower my history teacher is a load of crap but thats what shes told me and ive seen that on videos and so on but ill tell her 9.5, it might have been deaths, casualties and missing soldiers, thanks for correcting me anyway :)
adam4bfc 1 year ago
@adam4bfc 9.5million killed in ww1...
MultiGermanPower 1 year ago
i have so much respect for these soldiers
kronenburg77 1 year ago
you can thank the canadian core for taking passchendaele even though it was not necessary
asshole8881 1 year ago
R.I.P. Sir. We thank you.
pjbrenna01 1 year ago
A man who survived the war and lived a long life, When he said war was senseless that tory general tried to imply he was a bit passed it and out of touch.
jrobertsoneff 1 year ago
He was one cool dude.
fizzlejibbs 1 year ago
That man is the voice of the 38 and a half million killed in the war
adam4bfc 1 year ago 68
@adam4bfc it was more like 60 million
Eltzic9 1 year ago
@Eltzic9 i must have a bad history teacher then!
adam4bfc 1 year ago
@adam4bfc
for as far as i know ther were only a little over 10 million?
Varlot15 1 year ago
@adam4bfc There were only about 10 million dead, but ruffley 38 million casualties
theevilm1 8 months ago
@adam4bfc : "Only" 10 million soldiers died; furthermore almost 20 million wounded, and about 50 million dead to the Spanish flu. Just saying.
BelgianGeneral 7 months ago
Our Noble Dead,R.i.p
urbankhat65 1 year ago
Now Gone Forever Remembered
We will Remember Them...[ALL]!
griffltd 1 year ago
not british canadian
walkingfunk 1 year ago
@walkingfunk
Harry Patch WAS British actualy.
TylerRVG 1 year ago
Happy Veterans Day Mr. Patch. Thanks for serving and may you rest in peace.
DreadedPantherTank 1 year ago
be thinking about you and the old boys tomorrow, RIP, will never forget.
billyboy1871 1 year ago
men back then were true gentlemen not like now bloody stabbing and shooting each other for what????
Canashea 1 year ago
poor man, he seems so gentle, not the leaset bit war like and he lays poppies for those who could have killed him♥ what a great me harry was- only if everyone was like him xxx
Eloise672 1 year ago
your an amazing man, if you weere still alive, i would give you flowers and a hug and a kiss♥ my great grandfather fought for england in the war, he survived he didn't evevn get wounded (luckly) he never ate corn beef again cause thats what they had in the trenches.
Eloise672 1 year ago
May God bless you Harry, the last Tommy. You are a true gentleman. You have gone and joined the ranks of a generation who fought through a living hell so we may have our freedom. Eternally grateful to you and your fallen comrades. Rest easy and rest in peace. Thank you.
meganchristain 1 year ago
Thank you Harry and i mean it from the bottom of my heart. You and your generation will never be forgotten. Truly 1 of the 2 Greatest Generations to have graced this country.
We will remeber you always.
R.I.P brave Tommy.
broodicus1 1 year ago
Sir, God bless you and all those who fought for this country. So sad it was a wasted effort. My own Father fought in WW2 and even he wonders what benefits we got from it when heroes who return from battle these days get spat on and abused. Disgusting waste of life. The balance needs redressing, now.
hooplemott 1 year ago
I am the only one that got through
The others died where ever they fell
It was an ambush
They came up from all sides
Give your leaders each a gun and then let them fight it out themselves
I've seen devils coming up from the ground
I've seen hell upon this earth
The next will be chemical but they will never learn
AndyHicks2003 1 year ago
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Rest Easy Harry. I met you at La Boiselle, , Lochnager Crater.. on the Somme on 1st July in 1991.....a day reminiscing I'll never forget.
Cheerio Harry . RIP
bodge666 1 year ago
Rest Easy Harry. I met you at La Boiselle, , Lochnager Crater.. on the Somme on 1st July in 1991.....a day reminiscing I'll never forget.
Cheerio Harry . RIP
bodge666 1 year ago
are last tommy
casp1965 1 year ago
Always amazing to hear people born in th19th century talking about their memories. When these guys were young there were kings and emperors ruleing most western nations, sailing ships on the seas, and only horses on the "roads". Truly living links to history!
Balboa99991 1 year ago
Learn from their experience, "War is the calculated and condoned slaughter of human beings." "Stay away from the army and the navy" Harry Patch
MrBexdem 1 year ago
WWI was the most brutal war if you ask me. horrific losses in horrific conditions inflicted by horrific weapons.
WW2 May have killed more people but atleast you didn't have to stand in the same muddy trench everyday for 3 months.
ih8makinusernames 1 year ago
@ih8makinusernames Maybe for the the troops yes. But WW2 was worse cause it affected so many millions of civilians lifes as well.
Stravinsky91 1 year ago
RIP...
80snessEj 1 year ago
RIP harry patch
101stairbornedan 1 year ago
"war is a calculated and a condoned slaughter of human beings"
Let this voice be passed through the ages. Let his words speak for the mangled and long quiet who bravely stayed forever in this mire.
pvtdangles 1 year ago
@pvtdangles don't forget
"Those who delight in war, have never seen it"
Its sad but true, the longer you go without a war the less and less horrific war seems to new generations.
ih8makinusernames 1 year ago
@ih8makinusernames very very true.
pvtdangles 1 year ago
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pvtdangles 1 year ago
War is a calculated and a condoned slaughter of human beings.
gamesDAMNED 1 year ago
wow im blown away to meet him would be a total honor!!! the life that man has seen ......... god rest your soul harry you are a true hero and we will never forget you and the brave men that fought in the 1st great war .we love you and thank you for your sacrifice !!
666johnerotn 1 year ago
"War is the calculated and condoned slaughter of human beings."
Why can't we listen to the people who have lived through these tragedies? We all feel we're so clever, so in the right, we who have never experienced the worst our species has to offer. The comparisons of statistics going on below is at best inconsequential and at worst obscene.
AndyHicks2003 1 year ago
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AndyHicks2003 1 year ago
What did he say?
bfoaliali 1 year ago
God save all veterans!
Fjodin 1 year ago
war is nothing more than a duel on a greater scale.
who wrote that? Imanuel Kant or something.
yousuckhardtime 1 year ago
it's the leaders who start the war than it's the young men and women who pay the price
TheSirRoberto 1 year ago
rip you are in the trenches of heaven now
jordler 1 year ago
The reason there is not alot of WW1 movies is because WW2 was right after, it was more like path to ww2
TR3Y4LI4E 1 year ago
RIP To all those that fell on all sides.
bri4u2906 1 year ago
R.I.P Harry Patch
A year today since you left us, we will never forget you.
mufcevo 1 year ago
RIp Mr Patch. he'll be up in heaven drinking and playing card with his buddys (mates) :'( RIP again Mr Patch Thank you for what you have done :)
TheSirRoberto 1 year ago
is that guy still alive
jcatcatcatcat26 1 year ago
R.I.P Harry Patch. The world, and those in it, will always remember you.
adeth4told 1 year ago
i wish the soldiers in iraq would listen to this guy, it's a shame to say but a lot of the people want to join the army bcos they think it's a like a video game!
BananaSandwich1 1 year ago
They should make a game about ww1
thamaster789 1 year ago
OOOPPS it was actually John Babcock who passed away last February.. sorry for the erratum..
xzyza2000 1 year ago
Who was the WWI veteran who died age 107 and was still quite able. I can remember watching him on TV and was impressed at how agile and healthy he was for a man of over a century old. Just because you are old does NOT mean you will be weak and fragile, I met a centenarian once and she was quite healthy. My grandma is almost 80 and SO independent. The man I'm talking about could still walk quite easily towards the memorial to place a wreath.
meatisdeliciouse 1 year ago
@meatisdeliciouse To survive that long, you must be healthy, eh?
canuckleful 1 year ago
Find it hard to believe that 4 people gave this video a thumbs down.
supernova1990 1 year ago
R.I.P Harry patch, u will never be forgotten.
drillbull 1 year ago
What a man!!! Really this man has my entire RESPECT! Rest in Peace I salute you sir!!!
W0lfster 1 year ago
This man has my respect.
May he rest in peace with all of the other veterans of the war.
bruinsfan1995 1 year ago
what can you say? A mechanized war that they did not expect. Heroes the lot of them, Including my Great Grandfather. Bless them all.
washman74 1 year ago
I feel so sorry for him, If I was the last veteran of ww1 , I would feel totally alone, and not know what to do.. :( r.i.p.
GamerGuyM 1 year ago
@walkabout09 you are so right lions i remember watching the march past as a kid on rememberance day and the strrets full of ww1 servivers but they just got less and less and now look none at all may god blees each and every one of them
dean11081988 1 year ago
R.I.P.
mexicanxrevolver417 1 year ago
WW1: such a tragedy. So many brave & dedicated men, Allied & German, mindlessly slaughtered for no meaningful reason. They all deserved to live, raise families & grow old in peace. No leader on either side valued the lives of their soldiers. Both the Allied and German soldiers would have been better off if they had just slaughtered their own political & military leaders instead of each other. WW1 would have been over in 2 weeks with just a few 1000 dead.
drav1dan 1 year ago
@drav1dan Not just German. Austrian, Hungarian, Bulgarian, and Ottoman
KaiserReich98 1 year ago
@KaiserReich98 : Of course. By 'Germans', I mean't all the 'Central Powers'. I just couldn't list them all because of the 500 char limit.
drav1dan 1 year ago
That man and like others bring a tear to my eye....Me and this generation are nothing but complete lay abouts wanting money of the government witch they men fought and died for us......Least i can say what's really going on they don't make them like they used to....NEVER
beithloyalists 1 year ago
R.I.P mate :(
GENdandyboy 1 year ago
now that harry is gone ww1 is in the pages of history i mean that in a good way
halethewhale 1 year ago
Born in 1898.
antisadism 1 year ago
lions lead by donkeys.
blaster2012 1 year ago 34
@blaster2012
A fairly modern concept which was not felt at the time of the War
johnpindar 1 year ago
@johnpindar
Agreed Ozzy Said It Best... WAR PIGS! I applaud that man...visiting an enemy cemetery.. A true hero all men on both sides....
BLUTundGermany 1 year ago
@johnpindar
I disagree. The soldiers had no choice in obeying orders to go over; otherwise they would have been shot on the spot. This was the reason officers carried revolvers; the officers revolver wasn’t a weapon to fight the enemy but to shoot, in the officers view (not mine) “cowards”.
montife 1 year ago
@montife
That was the policy of the british army, what isnt publicised as much is the same rule applied to the german forces. The officer stood behind the machine gun nest and would shoot if the soldier did not pull the trigger.
I saw an interview years ago with a german maxim gunner, he said that when the officer was stood behind him with pistol in his hand, he was grateful for the tears that filled his eyes as he couldnt see to shoot the british soldiers forced to walk across no mans land.
gordongate 1 year ago
@johnpindar That phrase was coined from a conversation between Erich Ludendorff and Max Hoffmann during the war.
KaiserReich98 1 year ago
RIP MY WARHERO
cluescrollvids 1 year ago
Harry we, truly, salute you.
R.I.P
Quixsilver2003 1 year ago 2
Does anyone know where I can see a close up of thoase aerial photos?
Verac1ty 1 year ago
gave there lives is a nice way to put it
ROSSYBYE 1 year ago
a true hero
MissKatieMcCay 1 year ago
RIP Harry Patch. This man resided in my hometown before he died a matter of months ago. I feel proud of the fact.
eatmoremonsters 1 year ago
goodbye Harry and RIP ..
RattlesnakeBob 1 year ago
If theres a heaven, Harry Patch is surely there. RIP Harry
FINboy1995 1 year ago
R.I.P Harry Patch.
May the senseless slaughter you witnessed never be repeated.
AndyHicks2003 1 year ago 12
R.I.P Harry.
My Great Grand Father died on 23 September 1917 in the 3rd Battle of Ypres, known as Passchendaele, and is buried in Locre Hospice Cemetery, Private 24489 Thomas Kellett, my hero, and a comrade of Harry's, like 250,000 others who died in that 100 day battle.
darrenkellett 1 year ago 6
RIP Harry. An entire nation salutes you.
mr9396 1 year ago 71
@mr9396 An entire Empire.
canuckleful 1 year ago
@mr9396 i think the whole world salutes him :)
TheSirRoberto 1 year ago
@mr9396 and well beyond
Xarcas 1 year ago
@mr9396 Representing my people, the people of The United States, I salute you as well, Harry along with the millions of others who gave what you did to protect us. You are not forgotten.
HufflepuffTheGreat 1 year ago
@mr9396 more then a nation my friend
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