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Revision as of 06:15, 1 May 2007 by 132.241.246.111 (talk)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)Frank Woodruff Buckles (born February 1, 1901) is one of the last surviving American veterans of the First World War.
He is the last living WWI U.S. veteran to finish basic training and be stationed overseas prior to the end of the war.
Buckles was born in Harrison County, Missouri. He enlisted at the beginning of the United States' involvement in World War I in April 1917. During his time in service for the United States Army, Frank was stationed in the United States, United Kingdom, Germany and France. Buckles was sent to France in 1917 at age 16, where he was a driver; after the Armistice was signed in 1918, he escorted prisoners of war back to Germany. In 1919, after the war had ended, Frank Buckles was stationed in Germany, and he was discharged from service in 1920 having achieved the rank of corporal. In the Second World War, in the 1940s, Buckles was a civilian working for an American shipping line. However, he was captured by the Japanese, and spent three years in a Japanese prison camp during most of that war. Frank Buckles was awarded the Légion d'honneur by French president Jacques Chirac, and he currently lives in Charles Town, West Virginia.
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