Those interviewed were: Harry Patch, Claude Choules, Bill Stone, Alfred Anderson, Sandy Young, Alfred Finnigan, Arthur Halestrap, Jim Lovell, Arthur Barraclough, Charles Watson, Percy Wilson and Jonas Hart.
[3] Fred Lloyd and John Ross [4] were also interviewed by Quickfire Media about their wartime experiences, but were not featured in any of the series' episodes.
[7] Sam Wollaston, a TV critic for the Guardian said of the series: "It was impossible not to be moved by The Last Tommy (BBC1), in spite of some cheapening and unnecessary reconstruction.
Wonderful old men, the embers of a generation - like Harry Patch and Alfred Anderson, who was there for the famous Christmas ceasefire of 1914 - remember the fear, horror, the buddies who never came home, the biscuits and the bully beef.
"[2] In the first week after transmission, Harry Patch received 180 letters from the public, much of which was fan mail,[8] and later re-established contact with a niece of his first wife, whom he had not seen for over 30 years, as she had been unaware that he was still alive until she saw the programme.