Obituary: Claude Choules (last surviving WWI combat vet)

alp227

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Wed May-04-11 10:37 PM
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Obituary: Claude Choules (last surviving WWI combat vet)

Source: BBC News

Claude Choules was the last known surviving combat veteran of the Great War, and served in both the world wars of the 20th Century.

Born in Pershore, Worcestershire in 1901, he tried to sign up for the army at the beginning of World War I but he was too young.

Two years later, at the age of 15, he joined the Royal Navy serving on board the training ship HMS Impregnable based at Devonport.

His earliest memories in the service were of seeing the convoys of ships, returning to Britain, carrying the wounded from the Battle of the Somme.

Read more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-10205174

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kestrel91316

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Wed May-04-11 10:46 PM
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1. I had an elderly Russian client years ago who was a veteran of Czar

Edited on Wed May-04-11 10:47 PM by kestrel91316

Nicholas' army. He was from Georgia (the Republic of, now, not our US State) and used to rail about "bloody Stalin!!!".

He's probably been dead 20 years. It was a LONG time ago, those wars.

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Historic NY

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Wed May-04-11 11:00 PM
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2. Godspeed Claude Choules...........

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rasputin1952

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Wed May-04-11 11:16 PM
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3. Would be amazing to see life through that man's eyes...

RIP Mr Choules.

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Boudica the Lyoness

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Thu May-05-11 01:27 AM
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4. The war to end all wars.

Don't worry, it'll be over by Christmas.

A job well done Claude.

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