The terminal nation unfortunate of the World War I trenches, Harry Patch, has died at the age of 111.
Mr Patch was conscripted into the Army older 18 and fought in the Battle of Passchendaele at Ypres in 1917 in which more than 70,000 nation soldiers died.
He was upraised in Coombe Down, near Bath, and had been living at a tending bag in Wells, Somerset.
The oldest WWI stager Henry Allingham, who served in the Royal Navy and the RAF, died at the age of 113 a hebdomad ago.
His biographer Richard Emden said Mr Patch passed absent at 0850 BST on Sat morning.
A statement from the playwright House tending bag said: "It is with such sadness that we must foretell the death of Mr Harry Patch on 25 July at the age of 111.
"Funeral arrangements are being made in accordance with Mr Patch's wishes, and we desire to extend our deepest sympathies to his family, friends and the residents and staff of playwright House."
Mr Patch served as a clannish at the Third Battle of Ypres - famous as Passchendaele - from June to September 1917 when he was seriously injured by a bomb discharge which killed three of his friends.
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