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This is a list of the last known surviving veterans of the First World War (28 July 1914 – 11 November 1918) who lived to 1999 or later, along with the last known veterans for countries that participated in the war.
Gravestone of Brigadier-General Roland Bradford, killed 30 November 1917. General officer ranks in the armies of the British Empire of the First World War were, in descending order of seniority: field marshal, general, lieutenant-general, major-general, and brigadier-general.
Brooks on the Western Front, 1917. Ernest Brooks (23 February 1876 – 1957) was a British photographer, best known for his war photography from the First World War. He was the first official photographer to be appointed by the British military, and produced several thousand images between 1915 and 1918, more than a tenth of all British official photographs taken during the war.
Death is more typically presented through images of widows, orphans and elderly parents on memorials, all popular inter-war allegorical forms for death and grieving. [282] Figures of women often represented peace, civilisation or wider humanity. [283] By far the most important source of symbolism on memorials, however, is Christian imagery and ...
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Sergeant Stubby (1916 – March 16, 1926) was a dog, the unofficial mascot of the 102nd Infantry Regiment and was assigned to the 26th (Yankee) Division in World War I and travelled with his division to France to fight along side the French.
World War I (also known as the First World War and the Great War) was a global military conflict that embroiled most of the world's great powers, assembled in two opposing alliances: the Entente and the Central Powers. [1]
A. Cecil Abercrombie; Shelley Scarlett, 5th Baron Abinger; Fred Abraham Jr. Harold Ackroyd; Abraham Acton; Bernard Adams (writer) Lestock Adams; Charlie Adamson