Henry Allingham dies

[Gandalf]

Must be weird to ourlive your kids (I presume he has if he had any) maybe even outlived somer grandkids

113!!!!

Imagine all the inventions and changes to technlogy etc he must've seen.

He was in his seventies when England one the world cup!!

Incredible that. You think of someone in their 70's as ready to pass away at any time and there he was still around 40 odd years later. Totally mad!

I recall him being on the BBC some time ago, I thought he was pretty cool then writing books at his age.

[X]

All this talk about war veterans reminds me of the Queen Mother, who bravely remained at the side of her husband in London during the Blitz. This makes me somewhat ashamed of my own grandfather, who (at the first sign of war) ran off to Dunkirk, North Africa and Normandy - leaving his pregnant wife to remain behind.