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Originally Posted by Huntingwhale
Are there any WW1 vets that are still alive? Pretty stunning to think that something we've all learend about for years started a century ago today.
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The last living veteran of World War I (28 July 1914 – 11 November 1918) was Florence Green, a British citizen who served in the Allied armed forces, and who died 4 February 2012, aged 110.[1]
The last combat veteran was Claude Choules who served in the British Royal Navy (and later the Royal Australian Navy) and died 5 May 2011, aged 110.[2]
The last veteran who served in the trenches was Harry Patch (British Army) who died on 25 July 2009, aged 111
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...ans_by_country