UK: WWI veteran Patch dies aged 111

. LONDON, England / BBC News / UK / July 25, 2009 The last British survivor of the World War I trenches, Harry Patch, has died at the age of 111. Mr Patch was conscripted into the Army aged 18 and fought in the Battle of Passchendaele at Ypres in 1917 in which more than 70,000 British soldiers died. He was raised in Combe Down, near Bath, and had been living at a care home in Wells, Somerset. Harry Patch fought at the Battle of Passchendaele in World War I The sole British survivor of the war is former seaman Claude Choules, who is aged 108 and lives in Perth, Australia. [rc] Continue reading © BBC MMIX