Tributes paid to the last ‘Tommy’

THE last “Tommy” Harry Patch was buried yesterday as thousands paid tribute to the last voice of a generation of sacrifice.

Patch, who died aged 111 on July 25, was honoured at a service at Wells Cathedral, in Somerset.

He 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 half a