Kitchener's Last Volunteer: The Life of Henry Allingham, the Oldest Surviving Veteran of the Great War
Dan Wilson (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
Noone who was present at Henry Allingham's funeral earlier in the year doubts Brighton's pride in its heroes. And today at the Brighton cenotaph down at Old Steine, just like in communities all over, hundreds of people joined in the Service of Rememberance. Rememberance is importance every year, but recent losses in Afghanistan made [...]
Turbulent Cleric (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
There's something very different about Remembrance Sunday this year. Last yeat at the Cenotaph in London, wreaths were laid by the last three survivors of the First World War to live in Britain - Henry Allingham, Harry Patch and Bill Stone. In the year that has followed that occasion all three of these venerable men have passed away. With them has gone our direct link with that dark conflict. And doesn't...
The Daily Rant (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
With the deaths earlier this year of Harry Patch and Henry Allingham next week's Remembrance Sunday service will be the first without any survivors from the First World War alive today in the U.K. Only three men to serve in the devastating 'War to End All Wars' remain, the youngest 108 years old. A recent collection of photographs marks the passing of their generation. The utter brutality and shocking...
BigLee's Miniature Adventures (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
The BBC have a photo report on their site featuring the soldiers who survived WWI and lived to old age. The pictures are taken from a new book Great War Portraits by Kieth Collman. (Bill Stone, Harry Patch & Henry Allingham) The book is Hard cover (with dust jacket) 251 x 251mm, 108 pages and with 83 B&W photographs of the veterans. The men (and one woman) featured are: Alfred James Keep -...
Dear Miriam - Mirror.co.uk (Free subscription) | 10/23/2009
We marvelled at First World War veteran Henry Allingham, reaching the grand old age of 113 this year. He became Britain's oldest man before he died in July, in a life that crossed three centuries. His longevity was exceptional but...
New English Review/The Iconoclast (Free subscription) | 10/01/2009
by Esmerelda Weatherwax (October 2009) Over the summer holiday I read Henry Allingham’s autobiography – Kitcheners Last Volunteer. I knew that Henry Allingham was born in Upp...
Military Police Association - Isle of Man Sub Group (Free subscription) | 09/17/2009
The passing of the World War One generation will be formally marked by a national event which will take place at Westminster Abbey on Armistice Day, Wednesday 11 November 2009. The service will recognise not only the military contribution in World War One but also that of the civilian population and will take place in the presence of Her Majesty The Queen and His Royal Highness The Duke of Edinburgh....
anti aging cream (Free subscription) | 09/17/2009
You publish a book, of course! At least that's Britain's oldest person, Henry Allingham, did last December, 2008 when he published his autobiographical Kitchener's Last Volunteer.
paidContent:UK (Free subscription) | 09/08/2009
By Maggie Brown : Stuart Prebble, the former ITV (LSE: ITV) chief executive, has launched a social history and genealogy networking website, storyvault.com . The site encourages users to record, upload and archive key events in their lives, as well as offering first-hand accounts of historic events. Alongside accounts from Japanese prisoners of war or Falklands veterans, for example, users can build...
O cuniculi! Ubi lexicon Latinum posui? (Free subscription) | 09/06/2009
Friday sees the eighth anniversary, and none of us need reminding of what we are remembering. Certainly, it is a date that carries with it a heaviness that once it had not. How many other dates go down in infamy? 07/07 for the British bombs, 08/11 for the Enniskillen bombing, 11/05 for the fire at Bradford City football club, 01/09 for Beslan . Of course, there are others, some personal to us. Most...
Londonist (Free subscription) | 09/02/2009
Henry Allingham, who died in July, is to be immortalised on the streets of Hackney . The war veteran briefly became the world's oldest man in June this year, reaching the annuated milestone of 113 . Hackney Council have approved a motion by Cllr Michael Desmond to commemorate the fellow in a local street name. According to Desmond, the tribute is not just for his services to long-livedness: "It's...
Godzdogz (Free subscription) | 08/27/2009
The recent deaths of Henry Allingham and Harry Patch, the last surviving First World War veterans in Britain, marked the end of an era. Their passing reminded the present generations of the sacrifice and horrors of the Great War. Their deaths have an added significance, as the British armed forces have recently and currently been involved in operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. The English Dominican...
Anawim (Free subscription) | 08/19/2009
Hat tip to The Soul of Man Under Capitalism for this: Carol Anne Duffy writes poem for Henry Allingham - Telegraph The Last Post In all my dreams, before my helpless sight, He plunges at me, guttering, choking droning. If poetry could tell it backwards, true, begin that moment shrapnel scythed you to the stinking mud... but you get up amazed, watch bled bad blood run upwards from the slime into its...
Slugger O'Toole (Free subscription) | 08/18/2009
Last month we saw the passing of Harry Patch, the last surviving veteran of the trenches of the First World War and a few days before that Henry Allingham also died. With their deaths there is now no direct link between the living and those who fought there. Many tributes have been paid to both men and it has been an opportunity to think about that terrible war which seems to have lost little of its...
The Jayarava Rave (Free subscription) | 08/14/2009
In Britain last week 'we' were been saying farewell to 111 year old Harry Patch. Although most of us had never heard of him a month ago Patch, and 113 year old Henry Allingham who also died recently, had fought in World War One. Patch had been the last British man alive to have seen active services in the trenches, and had been very critical of war. "It wasn't worth it" he said. He had kept...
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