Evolution Surrenders!

The last of our WWI heros have just about almost all passed and gone. Please give a welcome and warm salute, to a man that is truely among the last of many. 109 year old Henry Allingham. Thank you Henry, and may you have many years more.

Britain's oldest war veteran said he would "like to join up again" after attending memorial services in France on Armistice Day.

Henry Allingham, 109, from Eastbourne in East Sussex, was a WWI aircraft engineer and is the last survivor from the Royal Air Force's creation in 1918. He laid wreaths at memorials in St Omer, near Calais, in honour of his fallen comrades. Mr. Allingham served in the British airbase there during 1917.

St Omer is the location of the first permanent memorial to the 4,700 British air personnel who died while fighting on the Western Front. Mr Allingham received a standing ovation when he officially unveiled it in 2004.

And you recieve another applause from a young dumb American here.

On Friday he used a stick to walk up to the memorial and lay a wreath. Candles were lit at the Church of the Immaculate Conception. He then stood to attention before returning to his wheelchair to hear The Last Post being played. The last survivor of the Battle of Jutland said: "By coming here, you recall things you want to forget.

"But I do the best I can and I come here to pay homage to these brave men.

"We owe so much to these men who gave all they could have given on my behalf and everyone's behalf. It is so important that we acknowledge them."

And acknowledge them we do. Thank you Mr. Allingham. Thank you for your contributions to saving the free world.

Mr Allingham was accompanied by 12 trainee aircraft engineers from RAF Cosford, near Wolverhampton. He wished them success in their careers, adding: "I'd like to join up again. I'd give it another go if I could." Mr Allingham will also attend the Remembrance Sunday service at the Cenotaph in London.

Live long Mr. Allingham. You and your contributions will never be forgotten.

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