Posted on 05/04/2011 9:27:58 PM PDT by naturalman1975
CLAUDE Stanley Choules, the last known combat veteran of World War I, has died in Perth, aged 110.
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Choules joined the British navy as a teenager and served on the battleship HMS Revenge, from which he watched the 1918 surrender of the German High Seas Fleet.
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According to the Order of the First World War, a group that tracks veterans, Choules and another Briton, Florence Green, were the last known surviving service members from the conflict.
Green served as a waitress in the Women's Royal Air Force.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.com.au ...
Hooroo digger! RIP
A veteran of both World Wars - he served in the Royal Navy in World War I, and the Royal Australian Navy in World War II.
What an extraordinary life Mr. Choules had to have lived. And from his later life pix, he seemed still a happy man, so it was a life well lived. RIP.
All present and accounted for Lord.
What a beautiful city to have spent so many years in.
The odds just boggle the mind - of the tens of millions of men in WWI, he is the very last.
Godspeed
My step grandfather was a WWI and Villa veteran
My grandfather was a British Army veteran of World War I who died in the late 1950’s, several years before I was born. Oh, how much I would like to have known him.
My grandfather was a British Army veteran of World War I who died in the late 1950’s, several years before I was born. Oh, how much I would like to have known him.
Despite what this article says, I thought there was one more in Poland.
RIP.
Villa?.
Wow, thats rare.
RIP to a real hero.
Last son of the notorious Wild Bill Sullivan of Sullivans Hollow Mississippi..
Word was he killed a deputy or constable underling in a pistol fueled dispute at the Mize MS train depot over a young woman and had to flee and headed west and joined up as Pershing was recruiting after the Columbus raids by Pancho.
That unit then ..most just folded into the Expeditionary forces then assembled for Europe.
He said chasing Villa was an adventure but that WWI was pure D hell.
My blood grandpa left my grandma for a young woman in 1963 or so and Boyd was a fixture in my youth from 67 or so till his death in 79. I still have his sweet 16 Remington...when they made them on the old patent....
He had led a wild life, most of it spent in the Southwest till coming home to marry my grandma who had been a little girl in the Hollow when his tales of deering do abounded.
Quite a fellow...all those Sullivan's are. Through my father's side...Pappy Tom Sullivan..the original settler from Indian days..was Boyd's great grandfather and my great X4 grandfather
Here is his gravestone:
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=pv&GRid=17767981
I wish I could’ve learned more about my blood grandfather who was also a WW1 vet. Unfortunately, he died when I was a toddler (1976). From what I understood, he chose not to talk about his war experiences (and he didn’t serve like the Americans, just a year, he was in the British Army and served the whole duration, with at least a year preceding it, so from 1913-1918, and he served in the Ottoman Empire). Alas, we have no idea what he did from that period clear until the time he came to the U.S. around 1930. We also didn’t even know exactly what he did in the British Army until I unearthed some document stating that his job description was essentially going out ahead of his troops, locating landmines and disarming them. Still, however his experience went in WW1, he volunteered in his mid 40s for service in WW2 (in the U.S. military), but was turned down because of his having young children.
I hope you’ve written your family history in a journal. Your kids need to know everything about your family that you do. Your family has such a great history in this country. There’s so much of my family history that is lost because it wasn’t documented.
You may have a gun, but I have a WWII Japanese Samurai sword. ;o)
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