Harry Patch, born June 17, 1898, was the last British soldier alive to
have fought in the trenches of the First World War. From his vivid
memories of an Edwardian childhood, the horror of the Great War and
fighting in the mud during the Battle of Passchendaele, working on the
home front in the Second World War, and fame in later life as a veteran,
The Last Fighting Tommy is the story of an ordinary man's extraordinary
life.