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The last living veteran of World War I (28 July 1914 – 11 November 1918) was Florence Green, a British woman who served in the Allied armed forces, and who died on 4 February 2012, aged 110. The last combat veteran was Claude Choules who served in the British Royal Navy (and later the Royal Australian Navy) and died 5 May 2011, aged 110. The last veteran who served in the trenches was Harry Patch who died on 25 July 2009, aged 111. The last Central Powers veteran, Franz Künstler of Austria-Hungary, died on 27 May 2008 at the age of 107.

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

Veterans, for this purpose, are defined as people who were members of the armed forces of one of the combatant nations up to and including the date of the Armistice. This policy may vary from the policy in actual use in some countries, though in all cases definitively excludes Poland.

References

1. Blackmore, David (7 February 2012). "Norfolk First World War Veteran Dies". EDP24. Retrieved 7 February 2012.
2. Carman, Gerry (6 May 2011). "Last man who served in two world wars dies, 110". The Age. Retrieved 6 May 2011.

External links

• The Great War Society
• The Western Front Association
• The Western Front Association – US branch
• The Great War Primary Documents Archive
• Public Radio Exchange (PRX) Walter Cronkite interviews some last surviving veterans of WWI
• World War One "The Great War"

Template:Lists of WWI veteran deaths

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• Centenarians
• Lists of military personnel
• Lists of military veterans
• Military lists of World War I
• People of World War I
• World War I veterans
• World War I by country
• Military personnel of World War I
• United States Department of Defense lists