Talk:List of last surviving World War I veterans

Possibility

Since it's unlikely (hopefully) that the remaining WWI veterans will all die in 2009, perhaps this page should be renamed in 2010 to something like "List of veterans of World War I who died after 2008" or "List of veterans of World War I who died in 2009-201X" etc., since there are so few remaining. Just a thought. Cheers, CP 04:12, 12 January 2009 (UTC)

I agree Paul. And please read my message below!!!! Signed: User:NickOrnstein

John Campbell Ross

Died June 3 2009:

http://www.theage.com.au/national/australias-oldest-man-soldier-dies-aged-110-20090603-buy4.htmlRyoung122 02:47, 3 June 2009 (UTC)

Sante Dal Santo

He used to be an unverified veteran before his death on 26 February 2009. I believe that he should be added here as a verified veteran. Here [1] is a report on his death. Signed: User:NickOrnstein

Country served	Name	Born	Died	Notes
Italy	Dal Santo, Sante	8 September 1902	26 Febraury 2009 (106)	Claimed to have joined up in 1916 digging trenches and tunnels. Also served in WWII. Lived in Montecchio Precalcino.

List Order

Previous pages have listed veterans in national and then alphabetical order...it seems here that the "five" veterans are listed in reverse chronological order, but not the three "era-vets" so there is a lack of consistency here.Ryoung122 03:57, 30 July 2009 (UTC)

Lauri Nurminen

See the google translation of the finnish wiki article linked in the headline. When Lennart Rönnback died in 2007, he was considered the last white guard from the Finnish civil war in 1918, but later mr Nurminen has been discovered. He was not yet 12 when he is said to have joined Ernst Linders troops in Nokia, Finland - seems a bit early, but it's easy to see why Linder may have had use for this boy - Linder lived his life in Sweden before the finnish civil war, and didn't understand finnish, neither did many others on the white side, so a boy who knew both languages would be useful in interrogation of captured enemy soldiers etc. I'm not completely sure of the meaning of all the machine translated text, so a finnish speaker reading the wiki article + the linked news article could perhaps tell us more? Mr Nurminen died in february 2009, so he may also rob Aarne Arvonen of the title last surviving veteran from the conflict. Hepcat65 (talk) 23:01, 2 April 2010 (UTC)

Now I've had the finnish article dechiphred by a native finnish speaker. Apparently I misread when the google translation was calling young Nurminen a transmitter - I thought about translater, but the finnish word in question actually means he was a Runner (war)/Courier in Linder's troops during the fight for Nokia. After the heavy fighting at Kalevankangas he fighted with the home guards until the invasion of Tampere was over and the white side won. He fought in Finlands two wars 1939-40 and 1941-44, too, and his rank at the end was sergeant. The article] mainly talks about the custom since 1933 to fabricate "pine swords" to decorate coffins for white guard veterans, a custom that now comes to an end, as he was the last one. Noone objects, so I'll include him. Hepcat65 (talk) 14:21, 8 April 2010 (UTC)

douglas terrey year of birth

doug terrey claimed he was born in 1903 but on the 1911 census it says he was born in 1904, here [2] is the link.--Tony W (talk) 15:22, 9 September 2010 (UTC) 1. Census ages are not accurate 2. Birth registration is in 1903 3. He was born in June; Census was taken in April SiameseTurtle (talk) 15:38, 9 September 2010 (UTC)

All of which are excellent reasons why we disallow original research. Canadian Paul 16:15, 9 September 2010 (UTC)

new name for article

because it is going to be 2011 soon, will this article be changed to List of veterans of World War I who died in 2009-2011Tony (talk) 19:26, 4 December 2010 (UTC)

But there is a chance that No Veterans will die this year since we are down to so few Surviving Veterans