The Last Fighting Tommy, R.I.P.

Harry Patch, the last soldier to fight in the trenches of the Great War, has died aged 111. Private Patch fought and was injured at the Battle of Passchendaele while serving in the Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry.

There are still three surviving veterans of the First World War - a Canadian, an American and a British Australian - but none of them saw action on the front lines. A national memorial service headed by Her Majesty The Queen will now be held to honour the Lost Generation, who now pass from memory into history.

Read "The Five Acts of Harry Patch", a poem by former Poet Laureate Andrew Motion in honour of the Last Fighting Tommy.