A very poignant story of a man - Henry Allingham (1896-2009) - who had been the oldest British veteran of the First World War, seeing action with the Royal Naval Air Service and its successor, the Royal Air Force.
This is a wonderful short biography of Henry Allingham, the oldest Englishman to have ever lived and one of the last remaining veterans of the first world war. I learned of Mr. Allingham from his obituary in the New York Times; somewhere else, upon his death, his autobiography, written with Dennis G...