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Thread #124991   Message #3148338
Posted By: Richie Black (misused acct, bad email)
05-May-11 - 04:36 AM
Thread Name: Obit:Last of the Last-WWI veteran, dies at age 110
Subject: RE: Last of the Last - WWI veteran, author at age 108
The last known combat veteran of the First World War has died at the age of 110.

British-born Claude Stanley Choules, who was known as "Chuckles" by his comrades, joined the Royal Navy aged just 14 and witnessed the scuttling of the German fleet at Scapa Flow in 1919.

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/last-first-world-war-veteran-dies-041955423.html