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Last World War I combat vet dies in Australia
Associated Press ^
| May 4, 2011
| KRISTEN GELINEAU
Posted on 05/04/2011 8:20:10 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
SYDNEY — Claude Stanley Choules, the last known combat veteran of World War I, died Thursday at a nursing home in the Western Australia city of Perth, his family said. He was 110.
"We all loved him," his 84-year-old daughter Daphne Edinger told The Associated Press. "It's going to be sad to think of him not being here any longer, but that's the way things go."
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TOPICS: Extended News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: claudestanleychoules; veterans; worldwarone; ww1
To: Free ThinkerNY
To: Free ThinkerNY
Godspeed Mr. Choules, the last soldier standing.
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posted on
05/04/2011 8:22:33 PM PDT
by
Free Vulcan
(Vote Republican! You can vote Democrat when you're dead.)
To: Free ThinkerNY
his 84-year-old daughter Daphne Edinger !!!!!
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posted on
05/04/2011 8:27:23 PM PDT
by
relictele
To: Free ThinkerNY
I thought there was still a Hungarian vet alive.
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posted on
05/04/2011 8:36:25 PM PDT
by
fso301
To: Free ThinkerNY
As a child, he was told his mother had died — a lie meant to cover a more painful truth: she left when he was 5 to pursue an acting career. The abandonment affected him profoundly, Pow said, and he grew up determined to create a happy home for his own children.Today she could have aborted him
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posted on
05/04/2011 8:37:21 PM PDT
by
fso301
To: Free ThinkerNY
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posted on
05/04/2011 8:44:01 PM PDT
by
newzjunkey
(Stay focused: Debt, Deficits & Immigration.)
To: fso301
There is a Pole and a woman from the UK still living. Neither saw WWI combat, but both served. They are the very last.
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posted on
05/04/2011 8:51:48 PM PDT
by
ClearCase_guy
(The USSR spent itself into bankruptcy and collapsed -- and aren't we on the same path now?)
To: All
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posted on
05/04/2011 8:56:22 PM PDT
by
musicman
(Until I see the REAL Long Form Vault BC, he's just "PRES__ENT" Obama = Without "ID")
To: Free ThinkerNY
The war to end all wars. What a momentous time. May he RIP.
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posted on
05/04/2011 8:56:44 PM PDT
by
Ciexyz
To: Free ThinkerNY
Lovely article. So inspirational. Of the combatants on both sides, only a handful are still remembered in any detail - the Red Baron von Richtofen, T. E. Lawrence.
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posted on
05/04/2011 9:05:27 PM PDT
by
Ciexyz
To: Free ThinkerNY
My grandfather was a WWI vet.
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posted on
05/04/2011 9:14:52 PM PDT
by
Coleus
(Adult Stem Cells Work, there is NO Need to Harvest Babies for Their Body Parts!)
To: relictele
yeah some serious genetic longevity at work there.
To: Free ThinkerNY
Good on ya! Thank you for your service!
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posted on
05/04/2011 10:40:38 PM PDT
by
jocon307
To: Ciexyz
Of the combatants on both sides, only a handful are still remembered in any detail And so many hundreds of thousands were ground into hamburger in the mud for a gain of a few hundred yards. What an insane war. It took until the end of the century for its echoes to finally die out.
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posted on
05/05/2011 6:40:34 AM PDT
by
dirtboy
To: Free ThinkerNY
I love the many quaint English last names.
This old navy vet married Ethel Wildgoose who died at age 98.
RIP.
Leni
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