Last WW1 Combat vet dies at 110

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Claude Stanley Choules, the last known combat veteran of World War I, has died in Perth.

His daughter Daphne Edinger told The Associated Press that British-born Choules - nicknamed 'Chuckles' by comrades - died in a nursing home on Thursday. He was 110.

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.

He later migrated to Australia and served in the military for more than 40 years.

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.

Mr Choules celebrated his 110th birthday with family and friends in Perth in March.

He was the last known male survivor of more than 70 million military personnel during WWI, after American veteran Frank Buckles passed away in March also aged 110.




One of the stupidest wars in history.

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