Thursday 5 May 2011

Last First World War Veteran Dies aged 110


The last known combat veteran of the First World War has died at the age of 110, his family has said.
British-born Claude Stanley Choules, who was known as "Chuckles" by his comrades, joined the Royal Navy aged just 14 and witnessed the scuttling of the German fleet at Scapa Flow in 1919.

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