Thursday, May 5, 2011

Claude Choules, Last World War I Combatant Dies-- Part 1

From May 4th AFB.

Earlier this year, Frank Buckles, the last surviving United States soldier from the Great War died. Sadly, Claude Choules, the last-surviving British combatant from the war has joined Mr. Buckles as the next-to-last member of their era.

Only one survivor of World War I remains, Florence Green, 110, who was a mess waitress for the RAF.

Mr. Choules, 110, was blind and nearly deaf, nicknamed Chuckles, and was also Australia's oldest man.

He was born in Worcestershire, England and joined the Royal Navy at age 15 in 1916, serving aboard the HMS Impregnable. He was present at the surrender of the German Imperial Fleet in 1918, as well as that fleet's scuttling at Scapa Flow in Scotland.

More to Come. --DaCoot

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