On 17 June 2009, Harry Patch celebrated his 111th birthday. At the time, he was the last living British Tommy who had fought in the trenches during the WWI. Now that direct link with the past has gone. From Patch’s vivid memories of an Edwardian childhood, through the horrors of the battles of Ypres and Passchendaele to 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.