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Henry Allingham,111, "No wonder the rats survived"

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Henry Allingham, who is 110, is Britain's oldest war veteran and one of the last Great War veterans still alive.
He will help lead the nation's tributes on the 90th anniversary of the Battle of the Somme. Charles Wheeler reports.
First broadcast on 29 June 2006
For more BBC clips about the Somme go to http://search.bbc.co.uk/cgi-bin/search/results.pl?q=somme&tab=av&edit...

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  • Three Cheers and God Bless to Mr. H. Allingham! An extraordinary man !

  • "happiness is within us" - God bless his soul.

    This man was a pride of a nation!

    greetings from Hungary

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  • @samuriguy909 Pictures of the Battle of Passchaendaele will make it instantly obvious how bad conditions could get.

  • @squamish4244 sank into the mud? while.... alive? Excuse me while I wipe my memory from reading that fact.

  • Grow not old as we are left grow old.

    Age shall not wither them, or the years condemn.

    At the going down of the sun; and in the morning.

    We will remember them.

  • @squamish4244 :/ yea i didnt get the bit where he said "no wonder the rats survived" at first... now i understand though... very grim :S.

  • kind of cute :) 2:56

  • @mordig He's right and you're over reacting. Do you honestly think he was implying that the first world war wasn't a big deal? Really?

  • @Camberwell86 and world war one wasn't an issue? grow up you stupid little cunt.

  • @mordig I wouldn't get "sick" over a "dislike" rating on a silly little website.

    Sometimes the human race has more pressing issues to deal with. :)

  • @mordig probably german lol

  • he's got the same accent as big chris (lock stock)

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