HEROES Men of
Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry in front line near Ypres on December 20, 1915
The last surviving combat soldier of WWI - from any country - had fought in the trenches on the Western Front with 7th (Service) Battalion,
Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry, serving as an assistant gunner.
Rank: Private Regiment:
Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry Date of death: 15-3-1917 Buried at: Ovillers Military Cemetery J Glaze Nephew of Obadiah McCarthy, of 165 Bute Street.
Pearce, the
Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry, who died at Cawnpore on June 25th, 1924, aged 22 years.' Without any doubt, it can be concluded that Kanpur was a cantonment town in 1924 and
Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry was stationed here.
Being a Cornishman, my first regiment was the
Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry, later being a senior NCO in the Worcestershire Regiment and on completion of service formed the Regimental Association.
Badly wounded, he was helped onto the sand by the squaddies from the 2nd Battalion
Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry.
Mr Patch, who was 111 when he died, was the last British Army veteran of the First World War and the last to have served in the trenches of the Western Front, serving as an assistant gunner in the
Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry at the Battle of Passchendaele in 1917, where 500,000 men died.
The 111-year-old was the last British Army veteran of the First World War and the last to have served in the trenches, as an assistant gunner in the
Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry at the Battle of Passchendaele in 1917, where half a million died.
The coffin was carried by six soldiers from 1st Battalion The Rifles, who took over The
Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry in which Harry had served.
"In spite of the comparatively short time that he served with the
Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry, Patch always cherished the extraordinary camaraderie that the appalling conditions engendered in the battalion and remained loyal to the end."
Eighteen-year-old Private Harry Patch - a plumber - had gone into action with the 7th
Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry, one of five men working a Lewis machine gun.
Last Tuesday, Sydney Lucas, originally from Leicester, just 17 when conscripted as a soldier with the Sherwood Foresters regiment, died in Australia aged 108.MrPatch, of Wells, Somerset, was a machine gunner in the
Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry and fought during the Battle of Pass chendaele in Ypres, which claimed the lives of more than 70,000 soldiers.