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The last veteran who served in the trenches was Harry Patch (British Army), 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.
The Royal Army Veterinary Corps (RAVC), known as the Army Veterinary Corps (AVC) until it gained the royal prefix on 27 November 1918, is an administrative and operational branch of the British Army responsible for the provision, training and care of animals. They are also responsible for explosives and drug search dogs.
James Richard Miles (1879–1977) – British Empire. Last British Army veteran of the Battle of Omdurman. [169] Babiker Bedri (1856–1954) – Mahdist Sudan. Mahdist Sudanese warrior and later social activist who pioneered women's education in Sudan. [170] He was the last surviving Mahdist veteran of the Mahdist War and the Battle of Omdurman.
Establishment and Strength of the British Army (excluding Indian native troops stationed in India) prior to August, 1914. By the First World War, the British military forces (i.e., those raised in British territory, whether in the British Isles or colonies, and also those raised in the Channel Islands, but not the British Indian Army, the military forces of the Dominions, or those of British ...
Alfred Anderson (veteran) Charles Groves Wright Anderson; Desmond Anderson; Ernest Masson Anderson; George Anderson (footballer, born 1887) Harry Anderson (Scottish footballer) J. Grant Anderson; James Anderson (footballer) Kenneth Anderson (British Army officer) William Anderson (VC) William Anderson (bishop of Salisbury) William Herbert Anderson
James Lovell MM (10 February 1899 – 27 January 2004), known as Jim Lovell, was one of the last British veterans of the First World War and the last surviving decorated "Tommy". He joined the army in September 1916, but was not sent to the Western Front until April 1918, due to his age. [1]
Albert Elliot "Smiler" Marshall (15 March 1897 – 16 May 2005) was a British veteran of the First World War and the last surviving British cavalryman to have seen battle on the Western Front. [ 1 ] Albert Elliott Marshall was born on 15 March 1897 in Elmstead Market , a village in the Tendring district of Essex , close to Great Bromley , Great ...
George Frederick Ives (17 November 1881 – 12 April 1993) was a British Canadian army veteran, who became known as the last surviving veteran of the Boer War. [1] Ives became known in the UK after a piece in the Peterborough Column in the Daily Telegraph.