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Video: British WWI veteran buried

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 Funeral held for last UK First World War hero 
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The last British soldier to survive the trenches of the first world war has been buried.

Harry Patch was aged 111 when he died two weeks ago.

He fought at Passchendaele in Belgium in 1917, one of the war’s bloodiest battles, which killed more than 500,000 men.

Al Jazeera’s Jonah Hull reports.

 
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