He's called Harry Patch and lives in a nursing home in Wells, Somerset. In 1917, aged 19, he was a Lewis gunner in the Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry and took part in the battle of Passchendaele. The Poet Laureate meets a 110-year-old survivor of the trenches - mirror.co.uk
They showed the half hour program (A poem for Harry) on BBC4 last week. It was very moving and a fitting tribute to Mr Patch and his generation.