List of last surviving World War I veterans by country
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There are no living veterans of World War I (28 July 1914 – 11 November 1918). The last living veteran of the war was Florence Green, a British woman who served in the Allied armed forces, and who died 4 February 2012, aged 110.[1] The last combat veteran was Claude Choules who served in the British Royal Navy (and later the Royal Australian Navy) and died 5 May 2011, aged 110.[2] The last veteran who served in the trenches was Harry Patch who died on 25 July 2009, aged 111. The last Central Powers veteran, Franz Künstler of Austria-Hungary, died on 27 May 2008 at the age of 107.
The total number of participating personnel is estimated by the Encyclopædia Britannica at 65,038,810. There were approximately 9,750,103 military deaths during the conflict.
Veterans, for this purpose, are defined as people who were members of the armed forces of one of the combatant nations up to and including the date of the Armistice. Other World War I-era veterans are listed separately. This policy may vary from the policy in actual use in some countries.
The last surviving veteran of World War I per country is shown in the table below.
| Country | Name | Death date | Age |
|---|---|---|---|
 Austrian Empire |
August Bischof[3] | 4 March 2006 | 107 years |
 Australia |
John Campbell Ross[4] | 3 June 2009 | 110 years |
 Belgium |
Cyrillus-Camillus Barbary[5] | 16 September 2004 | 105 years |
 Brazil |
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 Bulgaria |
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 Canada |
John Babcock[6] | 18 February 2010 | 109 years |
 Czechoslovakian Legions |
Alois Vocásek[7] | 9 August 2003 | 107 years |
 France |
Lazare Ponticelli[8]
(Last to be officially recognized as a poilu.) |
12 March 2008 | 110 years |
| France |
Pierre Picault[9] | 20 November 2008 | 109 years |
 German Empire |
Erich Kästner[10] | 1 January 2008 | 107 years |
 Greece |
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 Hungarian Kingdom |
Franz Künstler[11] | 27 May 2008 | 107 years |
 Indian Empire |
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 Italy |
Delfino Borroni[12] | 26 October 2008 | 110 years |
 Japan |
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 Montenegro |
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 Newfoundland |
Wallace Pike[13] | 11 April 1999 | 99 years |
 New Zealand |
Bright Williams[14] | 13 February 2003 | 105 years |
 Ottoman Empire |
Yakup Satar[15] | 2 April 2008 | 110 years |
 Polish forces |
Stanisław Wycech[16] | 12 January 2008 | 105 years |
 Portugal |
José Ladeira[17] | 5 May 2003 | 107 years |
 Romania |
Gheorghe Pănculescu[18] | 9 January 2007 | 104 years |
 Russian Empire |
Mikhail Krichevsky[19][20] | 26 December 2008 | 111 years |
 Serbia |
Aleksa Radovanović[21] | 22 June 2004 | 105 years |
 Siam |
Yod Sangrungruang[22] | 9 October 2003 | 106 years |
 South Africa |
Norman Kark[23][24] | March 2000 | 102 years |
 United Kingdom |
Florence Green[25] | 4 February 2012 | 110 years |
 United States |
Frank Buckles[26] | 27 February 2011 | 110 years |
[edit] References
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- ^ Goldstein, Richard (2010-02-24). "..John Babcock, Last Canadian World War I Veteran, Dies at 109". The New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/24/world/americas/24babcock.html. Retrieved 2010-11-20.
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- ^ "Franz Künstler, Veteran of 2 Wars, Dies at 107". The New York Times. 2008-05-30. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/30/world/europe/30kunstler.html?_r=1. Retrieved 2010-11-21.
- ^ "Delfino Borroni: Italy’s last surviving veteran of the First World War". The Times. 2008-10-30. http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,24557283-12377,00.html. Retrieved 2010-11-21.
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- ^ "Poland’s WWI veteran Stanislaw passes away". Oman Tribune. http://www.omantribune.com/index.php?page=news&id=19774&heading=Europe. Retrieved 2010-11-04.
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- ^ "ROUMANIE" (in French). Ders Des Ders. http://dersdesders.free.fr/roumanie.html. Retrieved 2010-11-21.
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- ^ "Oldest known Ukrainian Jew dies at 111". JTA. 2009-01-05. http://jta.org/news/article/2009/01/05/1002004/oldest-known-ukrainian-jew-dies-at-111. Retrieved 2010-11-04.
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- ^ "Last WW1 veteran dies". Taipei Times. 2003-10-11. http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/world/archives/2003/10/11/2003071220. Retrieved 2010-11-04.
- ^ Printing World (2000-04-17). "Longest serving Stationer dies at the wonderful age of 102". Highbeam Business. http://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-27692861_ITM. Retrieved 2010-11-04.
- ^ Ashley, Mike (2010-11-11). "Collecting Crime: London Mystery Magazine - Part Two". Crime Time. http://www.crimetime.co.uk/community/mag.php/showcomments/587. Retrieved 2010-11-21.
- ^ "Last surviving veteran of First World War dies aged 110". The Telegraph. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/9066371/Last-surviving-veteran-of-First-World-War-dies-aged-110.html. Retrieved 2012-02-07.
- ^ Courson, Paul (2011-02-28). "Last living U.S. World War I veteran dies". CNN. http://www.cnn.com/2011/US/02/27/wwi.veteran.death/. Retrieved 2011-02-28.
