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Last living combatant of World War I. [52] Last seaman. Last veteran who served in both World Wars. Last male veteran. Joined in 1916. Last witness to the German Naval surrender. Moved to Australia in 1926 and served with Royal Australian Navy in World War II. Lived in Perth, Western Australia. [53] [54] [55] United Kingdom: Florence Green: 19 ...
Ukrainian People's Army Matthew Danyluk 1892–1994 Ice March: 9 February 1918 Volunteer Army Boris Mikhailovich Ivanov 1895–1993 Steppe March: 25 February 1918 Don Army Nikolai Mikhailovich Pokhlebin 1901–1991 [216] Battle of the Lys: 7 April 1918 Portuguese Army José Maria Hermano Baptista 1895–2002 CEP. Battle of Tampere: 21 April 1918
After the start of the 21st century, Buckles continued living near Charles Town, West Virginia, and was still driving a tractor on his farm at age 103. [25] He stated in an interview with The Washington Post on Veterans' Day 2007 that he believed the United States should not go to war "unless it's an emergency". [ 29 ]
Marvel found census data that indicated Salling was born in 1858, not 1846. Although in 1900 Salling supplied a birthdate of March 1858, he appears to have been born around 1856, still too late to have served in the Confederate Army. The 1860 census lists him as 4 years old, and the 1870 census as 14. [140]
Henry William Allingham (6 June 1896 – 18 July 2009) was an English supercentenarian.He is the longest-lived man ever recorded from the United Kingdom, a First World War veteran, and, for one month, the verified oldest living man in the world.
Richard E. Cole (1915–2019), shown second-from-right in this 1942 photograph, was a World War II veteran and the last living participant of the Doolittle Raid. Lou Conter (1921–2024) – U.S. Navy. Last surviving crew member of the USS Arizona. [62] [note 1] Warren "Red" Upton (1919-2024) U.S. Navy.
Alvin Cullum York was born in a two-room log cabin in Fentress County, Tennessee. [4] He was the third child born to William Uriah York and Mary Elizabeth (Brooks) York. William Uriah York was born in Jamestown, Tennessee, to Uriah York and Eliza Jane Livingston, who had moved to Tennessee from Buncombe County, North Carolin
Anderson in February 2005. Alfred Anderson (25 June 1896 – 21 November 2005) was a Scottish joiner and veteran of the First World War.He was the last known holder of the 1914 Star (the Old Contemptibles), the last known combatant to participate in the 1914 World War I Christmas truce, Scotland's last known World War I veteran, and Scotland's oldest man for more than a year.