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Duke of Westminster - the third richest person in Britian
The Duke joined the Territorial Army in 1970 as a trooper. Read how he became Colonel Commandant Yeomanry of the Royal Armoured Corps.
James Blunt - champion skier of the Royal Armoured Corps
The singer/songwriter of You're Beautiful was captain of the Household Cavalry Alpine ski team, where he eventually came 26th out of the entire Army.
Further Reading
Articles from November 2008
- Royal Amoured Corps Veteran shares memories of Dunkirk
- Armistice Day: last surviving veterans honor their fallen comrades
- Missing details of a fallen Soldier
- Armoured Corps veteran makes sky dive
- The Duke of Westminster attends new memorial service
- Service men and women - past and present
- A new generation of rememberance
Subscribe to articles by RSS.Armistice Day: last surviving veterans honor their fallen comrades
21st November 2008
We may have taken it for granted, but of the five million men and women who served in Britain's armed forces in the war, only four are still alive.
We may have taken it for granted, but of the five million men and women who served in Britain's armed forces in the war, only four are still alive.
Henry Allingham, 112, Harry Patch, 110, and Bill Stone, 108, led the nation as it remembered the sacrifices made by the 1914-1918 generation.
The other surviving veteran, Claude Choules, 107, lives in Australia and will mark the 90th anniversary at local events there.
All three men laid wreaths at the Cenotaph in central London to commemorate Armistice Day.
The men each represented the armed service they belonged to - the Royal Air Force for Mr Allingham, the Army for Mr Patch and the Royal Navy for Mr Stone.
Heroes of today's armed forces accompanied the three men to the Cenotaph - Marine Mkhuseli Jones (Military Cross), Lance Corporal Johnson Beharry (Victoria Cross) and Flight Lieutenant Michelle Goodman (Distinguished Flying Cross).
In Dorset, a new war memorial in Bovington, commemorating soldiers of the Household Cavalry and Royal Armoured Corps who have died on active service since 1945, was being dedicated.
And in France the Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall were the guests of honour of President Nicolas Sarkozy. Charles was laying a wreath in Douaumont Cemetery, near Verdun.
Across all military services, the importance of this year’s Remembrance Day will have a particular poignancy:
This may well be the last remembrance of significance for these soldiers, and as a historically important generation of people pass through our fast-paced modern existence, the question remains…have we really made the most of the first-hand accounts that people were able to provide?