MILITARY PERSONNEL

Harry Patch

1898 - 2009

Harry Patch

Henry John Patch (17 June 1898 – 25 July 2009), dubbed in his later years "the Last Fighting Tommy", was an English supercentenarian, briefly the oldest man in Europe, and the world's last surviving trench combat soldier of the First World War. Patch was not the longest-surviving soldier of the First World War, but he was the fifth-longest-surviving veteran of any sort from the First World War, behind British veterans Claude Choules and Florence Green, Frank Buckles of the United States and John Babcock of Canada. At the time of his death, aged 111 years and 38 days, Patch was the third-oldest man in the world, behind Walter Breuning and Jiroemon Kimura. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Harry Patch is the 1,749th most popular military personnel (down from 1,734th in 2019), the 3,655th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 3,260th in 2019) and the 93rd most popular British Military Personnel.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Harry Patch ranks 1,749 out of 2,058. Before him are Milivoj Ašner, Karl Freiherr von Müffling, William Guarnere, Peter Cosgrove, Nikolai Iudovich Ivanov, and Hudson Austin. After him are Theodor Hoffmann, Guo Boxiong, Henry Gunther, Yekaterina Zelenko, Wilhelm Heye, and András Toma.

Most Popular Military Personnels in Wikipedia

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Milivoj Ašner
1913 - 2011
HPI: 56.59
Rank: 1,743
Karl Freiherr von Müffling
1775 - 1851
HPI: 56.58
Rank: 1,744
William Guarnere
1923 - 2014
HPI: 56.56
Rank: 1,745
Peter Cosgrove
1947 - Present
HPI: 56.52
Rank: 1,746
Nikolai Iudovich Ivanov
1851 - 1919
HPI: 56.52
Rank: 1,747
Hudson Austin
1938 - 2022
HPI: 56.51
Rank: 1,748
Harry Patch
1898 - 2009
HPI: 56.49
Rank: 1,749
Theodor Hoffmann
1935 - 2018
HPI: 56.49
Rank: 1,750
Guo Boxiong
1942 - Present
HPI: 56.48
Rank: 1,751
Henry Gunther
1895 - 1918
HPI: 56.47
Rank: 1,752
Yekaterina Zelenko
1916 - 1941
HPI: 56.44
Rank: 1,753
Wilhelm Heye
1869 - 1947
HPI: 56.43
Rank: 1,754
András Toma
1925 - 2004
HPI: 56.42
Rank: 1,755

Contemporaries

Among people born in 1898, Harry Patch ranks 204. Before him are Dorothy Gish, Princess Nadejda Petrovna of Russia, Nazik al-Abid, Preston Sturges, Félix Sesúmaga, and Hal Brown. After him are Harry Watson, David Toro, Ben Shahn, Valentín Paz-Andrade, Clemente Biondetti, and Ernst Ahl. Among people deceased in 2009, Harry Patch ranks 235. Before him are Ken Henry, Miroslav Filip, Alexis Argüello, Helen Suzman, Veronika Dudarova, and Pierre Chaunu. After him are Teddy Mayer, Lukas Foss, Shota Chochishvili, Anna Yegorova, Mamadou Dia, and René Bliard.

Others Born in 1898

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Dorothy Gish
ACTOR
1898 - 1968
HPI: 56.95
Rank: 198
Princess Nadejda Petrovna of Russia
NOBLEMAN
1898 - 1988
HPI: 56.85
Rank: 199
Nazik al-Abid
SOCIAL ACTIVIST
1898 - 1959
HPI: 56.79
Rank: 200
Preston Sturges
FILM DIRECTOR
1898 - 1959
HPI: 56.75
Rank: 201
Félix Sesúmaga
SOCCER PLAYER
1898 - 1925
HPI: 56.74
Rank: 202
Hal Brown
ATHLETE
1898 - 1983
HPI: 56.55
Rank: 203
Harry Patch
MILITARY PERSONNEL
1898 - 2009
HPI: 56.49
Rank: 204
Harry Watson
ATHLETE
1898 - 1957
HPI: 56.46
Rank: 205
David Toro
POLITICIAN
1898 - 1977
HPI: 56.37
Rank: 206
Ben Shahn
PAINTER
1898 - 1969
HPI: 56.36
Rank: 207
Valentín Paz-Andrade
WRITER
1898 - 1987
HPI: 56.35
Rank: 208
Clemente Biondetti
RACING DRIVER
1898 - 1955
HPI: 56.27
Rank: 209
Ernst Ahl
BIOLOGIST
1898 - 1945
HPI: 56.27
Rank: 210