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In addition to being the last U.S. veteran of World War I, Buckles was the oldest World War I veteran in the world at the time of his death, as well as the last field veteran of the war. [106] Following his death and funeral, there were two surviving World War I veterans, British-born Florence Green and British Australian citizen Claude Choules ...
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. Veterans are defined as people who were members of the armed forces of the combatant nations during the conflict, although some ...
Last verified Union veteran. [42] James Albert Hard (1843–1953) – Union Army. Last combat veteran. Served at First Bull Run, Antietam, and Chancellorsville. [43] Pleasant Riggs Crump (1847–1951) – Confederate Army. Last verified Confederate veteran. See Last surviving Confederate veterans. Alden G. Howell (1841–1947) – Confederate Army.
Last Dutch veteran and verified veteran. Europe's oldest man at the time of his death. He fought for Napoleon in the 33ème Régiment Léger. [46] August Schmidt (1795–1899) – Prussia. Last surviving German and Prussian veteran of the conflict and also last surviving veteran of the battle of Waterloo of all nations participating.
Louis de Cazenave (October 16, 1897 – January 20, 2008) [1] was, at the time of his death, the oldest surviving French veteran of World War I.. De Cazenave became the oldest living poilu following the death of 111-year-old Maurice Floquet on November 10, 2006, and later following the death of 110-year-old Aimé Avignon on August 23, 2007 also the oldest living Frenchman as well as the fourth ...
John Henry Foster Babcock (July 23, 1900 – February 18, 2010) was, at age 109, the last known surviving veteran of the Canadian military to have served in the First World War and, after the death of Harry Patch, was the conflict's oldest surviving veteran. Babcock first attempted to join the army at the age of fifteen, but was turned down and ...
Henry William Allingham (6 June 1896 – 18 July 2009) was an English supercentenarian.He is the longest-lived man ever recorded from the United Kingdom, a First World War veteran, and, for one month, the verified oldest living man in the world.
Moses Hardy (January 6, 1894 – December 7, 2006) was, at age 112, the last surviving African-American veteran of World War I and one of the last surviving American veterans of that war. The son of former slaves , Hardy was born in 1894 and lived a religious and farming life until he signed up to serve overseas in World War I in July 1918.