# Nigel Farage highlights the youngest Britons to lay down their life on Remembrance Sunday

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/nigel-farage-highlights-the-youngest-britons-to-lay-down-their-life-on-remembrance-sunday/
- Published: 2026-11-08T07:16:21+00:00
- Updated: 2026-11-08T08:26:55+00:00
- Original publisher: GB News (publisher lean: Right)
- Original article: https://www.gbnews.com/news/video-remembrance-sunday-nigel-farage-youngest-britons
- Topics: UK, World

## Key points

- VJ Strudwick died aged 15 in 1916.
- Sid Lewis served on the Somme at 13 and survived.
- The documentary also recalls a 68-year-old veteran killed in battle.

## Summary

Nigel Farage’s First World War documentary recounts the stories of young Britons who served and died, focusing on VJ Strudwick, buried at Essex Farm Cemetery. Strudwick was 15 when he died in January 1916, a month before his 16th birthday, and his grave is among the Western Front’s most visited.

Farage said John Condon, believed to have been 14, may have been the youngest British soldier killed in the war; a South African soldier died shortly before his 14th birthday. Sid Lewis joined the armed forces at 12, served with a Vickers machine-gun team on the Somme at 13 and survived. The documentary also mentions Captain Henry Webber, a 68-year-old stockbroker killed on the Somme.

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