Patch, Harry with Van Emden, Richard, - THE LAST FIGHTING TOMMY - The Life of Harry Patch, the Oldest Surviving Veteran of the Trenches.

Bloomsbury, London, ND, reprint, xiv inc. maps, 258pp, 16pp, coloured, sepai and half tone photo ills., [ii] notes, maroon cloth lettered in gilt at spine, decorative head and tail bands, photo pictorial dustwrapper, an account of the life of the longest surviving veteran of the First World War, who served as a machine-gunner with the Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry in the trenches of the Western Front, seeing action at Passchendaele (third battle of Ypres), wounded by shrapnel on his way out of the line, repatriation and convalescance, eventual demob. and return to his peacetime work as a plumber, serving with the Auxiliary Fire Service in WW2 before later becoming a celebrity as the last survivor of the trenches, fine in a fine dustwrapper,

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