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“Does Doris have a sweet tooth?”
“I don’t know... she might not have any!”
Harry patch, what a guy 😂

Breaks my heart to hear of the soldier who committed suicide after receiving the letter from his girl telling him she was leaving him for another man. She was probably the only thing keeping him going. The sheer selfishness and cruelty of a lonely partner safe and sound at home to drop gut wrenching news like that to their significant other away at war sickens me. She should have kept in contact with him and let him find out afterwards if he had survived.

When I watch something like this, it makes me realise how trivial most things in my life are now compared to what these great men faced back then. I'm 19 and when I sit on the crowded train to University I look at the situation and think what a horrible experience. Then when I look at what a soldier my age would have had to face in WW1 it makes a crowded train journey seem like nothing. What takes my breath away every time is the length of their lives. They experienced so much and there are little things in our lives now that can help us transcend decades of life than a vivid war like this one. I hope we never forget, because if we do. Then god forbid something like this could happen again . That is why we must continue to educate and remember what has happened in our past so we can become greater, stronger and wiser human beings.

Hope Harry's up there with his mates having a good laugh

Harry Patch. I would've loved meeting him. Seems like a real character.

That meeting between Harry and the German soldier was truly beautiful.  Harry made such a good point:  If disagreements can be settled with negotiation after a bloody war then why the hell not before?

I've taught World History for nearly 30 years.  This is one of the most effecting WWI documentaries I've viewed.

This has to be the most poignant documentary I have ever seen, what lives these men had, thank you Alan for taking the time to share this with us.

You could see the pain that these guys went through this was so interesting but yet chilling. The way Harry Ptch told his story had be gripped to the screen , never should this country forget these men who give their life’s for us. RIP

Great great men ! Harry died in 2009 aged 111 a true man Like all the others RIP
Its our job to make sure these great men and the awful wars are never forgotten .

Moved to tears by the end of this. Just can't believe that civilised men were capable of such horrors. Just the Tommies alone, 5 & half million men sent through all that. How can anyone not be moved by the scarifies, not just by the Allies but by the Germans also. This generation must never be forgotten - not ever. God bless them all.

All those men are gone now 100 years later none of them are around Harry Patch was the last Tommy. Frank Buckels the last Doug Boy. Many of those men took there tails to the grave. but these men are brave enough to tell us about the WW1. From the Horror to the Braver, and the brother hood. all these men from all nation are hero's, and to forget is to dishonor them! Thank you!

My generation don't know how good we've got it, man. What a generation.

I'm seventeen and it feels so strange that these guys were my age fighting in the trenches

I still warmly remember meeting that very last Tommie in this documentary back in 1995 when I lived in The U.K..  It is a very warm memory still to this day. He was so very kind and patient. I remember it was Remembrance Day and he insisted on pinning a poppy upon my coat's collar.  I felt so proud of it and of meeting such a person who have lived through and had seen so much in war and peace.  To this day I still keep that paper poppy.  One of my most prized possessions.  I am not sure if he is still alive and well here in 2015.  Being ten years after this program aired, but if so I wish him and the other living veterans as of the programs airing date happiness and health.  If they have passed, I wish them and all of The Veterans to rest in peace.  That they are not forgotten.  That always, they will be remembered.

18:37 - I hope my wife and I are that charming when we reach 100 years old.

Corporal Jim should have tracked that doctor down after the war and slapped him!!!!

Absolutely excellent!  My Papa was in WWI as a medic from here in America.  He described seeing the horribly wounded and the courage they continued to have.  I am a Vietnam veteran and war is terrible.  Thanks for this excellent video and best of luck to all of us.

You've got to give it to the British: they know how to make documentaries and how to show their history, also in the most humane aspect.
It's sad that when the last veterans of WWI were passing away many were not interviewed, nor could really share their memories.