Passchendaele: ‘Those unspeakable months.’ Harry Patch, known as the 'Last Tommy', died in 2009, aged 111. He lived a remarkable life. By June 1917 Harry was in France. Two weeks after the Battle of Passchendaele erupted, Harry duly went over the top. 'Others were just blown to pieces,’ he remembered. 'It wasn't a case of seeing them with a nice bullet hole in their tunic, far from it, and there I was only 19 years old. I felt sick.’ Harry most vivid memory was of a dying comrade, ripped to shre