Last WWI Combatant Dies in Australia

Posted by admin on May 5, 2011

Briton Claude Choules, the final World War I combat veteran, has died aged 110 in Australia, the last of more than 70 million military personnel mobilised during the conflict. Blind and almost totally deaf, Choules, nicknamed “Chuckles”, died at his hostel home in Perth overnight.

After American Frank Buckles died earlier this year, Choules was declared the last known combat survivor of the Great War that left 37 million soldiers dead or wounded. The only other surviving veteran of World War I is said to be Britain’s Florence Green, who served with the Royal Air Force in a non-combat role and is now aged 110.

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