"Henry John \"Harry\" Patch (17 June 1898 \u2013 25 July 2009), dubbed in his latter years \"the Last Fighting Tommy\", was a British supercentenarian, briefly the oldest man in Europe and the last surviving soldier known to have fought in the trenches of the First World War. Patch was, with Claude Choules and Florence Green, one of the last three surviving British veterans of the First World War and with Frank Buckles and John Babcock, one of the five last known veterans in the world."@en . . "Harry Patch"@en . . . . "1918Z"^^ . "Soldier, last survivor of World War I" . . "2009Z"^^ . . . "United Kingdom" . . "Patch, Henry John"@en . . . "1916Z"^^ . "1898Z"^^ . . . . . "Harry Patch"@en . . . . "2009-07-25Z"^^ . . . . . . "1898-06-17Z"^^ . . . .