Notable Residents
Henry John Patch (better known as Harry Patch) was born in Combe Down in 1898; both his father and grandfather were local stonemasons. His family home is still in existence in Gladstone Road. Patch was briefly the third oldest man in the world and the last trench veteran of World War I. He died in July 2009, aged 111, by which time he was the last soldier to have fought in the trenches, the second last surviving British war veteran and one of four surviving soldiers from the conflict worldwide. His memoir, The Last Surviving Tommy, records his Combe Down childhood in some detail. His funeral cortege passed through Combe Down village on its way to his burial in Monkton Combe churchyard.
Herbert Lambert FRPS, 1881–1936, Bath portrait photographer and harpsichord and clavichord maker.
Charlie McDonnell, the most subscribed YouTube vlogger in the United Kingdom, grew up in Combe Down before moving to London in 2010.
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