Surviving Veterans of The Great War

claude_choules According to Wikipedia, with the sad passing of Claude Choules on 5 May 2011, and of Frank Buckles in February, 2011, there is now just one Great War veteran left alive.She is Florence Beatrice Green (née Patterson, born 19 February 1901), at age 110, who is the last known living veteran of the First World War.

Florence was born at Edmonton, London to Frederick and Sarah Patterson (née Neall), and moved to King's Lynn in 1920, after her marriage to Walter Green, a railway worker who died in 1970 after 50 years of marriage. She still lives in King's Lynn with her daughter May, who was born in 1921

Florence joined the Women's Royal Air Force in September 1918 at the age of 17, where she served as an officers' mess steward. She worked in the officers' mess at RAF Marham and was also based at Narborough airfield.

She is West Norfolk's oldest resident, the second oldest person in Norfolk, and one of the 10 oldest people in Britain. She was identified as a Great War veteran in January 2010.

The total number of participating personnel in The Great War is estimated by the Encyclopaedia Britannica at 65,038,810. There were approximately 9,750,103 military deaths during the conflict.

Veterans, for this purpose, are defined by Wikipedia as people who were members of the armed forces of one of the combatant nations up to and including the date of the Armistice, 11 November 1918. One other of the World War I-era veterans is listed separately: a Polish soldier, Józef Kowalski, aged 110. (He may have enlisted after the Armistice but before the Treaty of Versailles, or may otherwise have a debatable joining date.) Please note the Wikipedia policy may vary from the policy in actual use in some countries.

Nationality	Name	Date of Birth	Age	Residence	Force served	Notes
United Kingdom	Choules, Claude Stanley	01901-03-03 3 March 1901	10p	Australia	Royal Navy	Last seaman. Last veteran who served in both World Wars. 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. Lives in Perth, Western Australia.
United Kingdom	Green, Florence Beatrice (née Patterson)	01901-02-19 19 February 1901	109	United Kingdom	Women's Royal Air Force	Last female veteran and last veteran residing in the UK. Joined in 1918 and served as a waitress. Lives in King's Lynn, Norfolk.

The last surviving veteran per other country is shown in the table below.

Country	Name	Death date	Age
Algeria	Saci Ben Hocine Mahdi	1998	100 years
Austria	August Bischof	4 March 2006	107 years
Australia	John Campbell Ross	3 June 2009	110 years
Barbados	George Blackman	March 2003	105 years
Belgium	Cyrillus-Camillus Barbary	16 September 2004	105 years
Canada	John Babcock	18 February 2010	109 years
Czechoslovakia	Alois Vocásek	9 August 2003	107 years
Denmark	Lorenz Gram	26 December 2004	105 years
Estonia	Juhan Kallaste^{[citation needed]}	28 August 1999	107 years
France	Pierre Picault	20 November 2008	109 years
Germany	Erich Kästner	1 January 2008	107 years
Guyana	Gershom Browne	6 December 2000	102 years
Hungary	Franz Künstler	27 May 2008	107 years
Italy	Delfino Borroni	26 October 2008	110 years
Jamaica	Stanley Stair	April 2008	107 years
Netherlands	Bert van Sloten	September 2005	105 years
Newfoundland	Wallace Pike	11 April 1999	99 years
New Zealand	Bright Williams	13 February 2003	105 years
Philippines	Eracleo Alimpolo^{[citation needed]}	2 October 2002	104 years
Poland	Stanis?aw Wycech	12 January 2008	105 years
Portugal	José Ladeira	5 May 2003	107 years
Romania	Gheorghe P?nculescu	9 January 2007	104 years
Senegal	Abdoulaye N'Diaye	10 November 1998	104 years
Serbia	Aleksa Radovanovi?	22 June 2004	105 years
Slovenia	Ivan Kova?i?	13 February 2001	103 years
South Africa	Norman Kark	March 2000	102 years
Thailand	Yod Sangrungruang	9 October 2003	106 years
Turkey	Yakup Satar	2 April 2008	110 years
Ukraine	Mikhail Krichevsky	26 December 2008	111 years
United States	Frank Buckles	27 February 2011	110 years