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(FILES) A picture taken on November 11, 2008 shows British Prime Minister Gordon Brown (Top L) posing with World War One veterans Bill Stone, 108, (Foreground L) Harry Patch, 110, (Foreground C) and Henry Allingham, 112, (Foreground R) and other military personnel outside Downing Street, following an Armistice Day commemoration ceremony in Whitehall in London. Britain's oldest surviving World War I Harry Patch died, his retirement home announced on July 25, 2009.. Harry Patch, a machine-gunner who fought in the notorious Battle of Passchendaele in Belgium, joined the British Army aged 18 and was sent to the trenches six months later. He spent four months fighting there in horrific conditions in 1917 before being seriously injured in a shell explosion which killed three of his friends. AFP PHOTO FILES / Ben Stansall
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London, 576, UNITED KINGDOM |
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AFP / Mediafax Foto |
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BEN STANSALL |
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11 Noiembrie 2008 |
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2500 x 1888 (1.01 MB) |
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