Claude Stanley Choules (3 March 1901 - 5 May 2011) was, at the age of 110, with Florence Green, one of the two last living First World War veterans in the world, and was the last living military witness to the scuttling of the German fleet in Scapa Flow.
He was also the last living veteran to have served in both world wars, and the last seaman from the First World War. Claude was also the last surviving male First World War veteran (the last female veteran being Florence Green), and the last First World War veteran living in Australia.
At the time of his death, he was also the third oldest verified military veteran in the world and the oldest man known living in Australia. He was the seventh-oldest living man in the world. Claude became the oldest man born in the United Kingdom following the death of Stanley Lucas on 21 June 2010.
He died in Perth, Western Australia, at the age of 110.
Source: Wikipedia
See also this BBC Article and BBC Obituary.
