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The last living [[veteran]] of [[World War I]] (28 July 1914 – 11 November 1918) was [[Florence Green]], a [[United Kingdom|British woman]] who served in the [[Allies of World War I|Allied]] armed forces, and who died on 4 February 2012, aged 110.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.edp24.co.uk/news/norfolk_first_world_war_veteran_dies_aged_110_1_1201358|title=Norfolk First World War Veteran Dies|publisher=EDP24|date=7 Feb 2012|accessdate=7 Feb 2012|last=Blackmore|first=David}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.theage.com.au/national/last-man-who-served-in-two-world-wars-dies-110-20110505-1ea59.html|title=Last man who served in two world wars dies, 110|publisher=[[The Age]]|date=6 May 2011|accessdate=6 May 2011|last=Carman|first=Gerry}}</ref> 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 [[World War I casualties|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 with Germany (Compiègne)|Armistice]]. This policy may vary from the policy in actual use in some countries. There is one living World War I-era veteran, listed below.

==Last 10 veterans==
The last 10 surviving veterans of World War I is shown in the table below. 

{| cellpadding=2 cellspacing=0 border=1 style="border-collapse:collapse; border: 1px #555 solid;"
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|- bgcolor="#ccccff"
!colspan=1 width="15%" |Country served
!colspan=1 width="16%" |Name
!colspan=1 width="17%" |Born
!colspan=1 width="17%" |Died
!colspan=1 width="35%" |Notes
|-
|{{UK}}||[[Florence Green|Green, Florence Beatrice]]||{{dts|format=dmy|1901|2|19}}||{{dts|format=dmy|2012|2|4}} (110)||Last veteran. Worked as a waitress in the [[Women's Royal Air Force]].<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-13289607|title=Last WWI combat veteran Claude Choules dies aged 110|date=5 May 2011|work=BBC News|accessdate=7 February 2012}}</ref> Lived in [[North Lynn]], [[Norfolk]].<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.edp24.co.uk/news/norfolk_first_world_war_veteran_dies_aged_110_1_1201358|title=Norfolk first world war veteran dies aged 110|date=7 February 2012|work=Eastern Daily Press|accessdate=7 February 2012}}</ref>
|-
|{{UK}}||[[Claude Choules|Choules, Claude Stanley]]||{{dts|format=dmy|1901|3|3}}||{{dts|format=dmy|2011|5|5}} (110)||Last living combatant of World War I.<ref>Choules, Claude ''The Last of the Last'' Mainstream Publishing pg 11 (introduction) & pg 61</ref> Last [[seaman]]. Last veteran who served in both World Wars. Last male veteran. Joined in 1916. Last witness to the [[Kaiserliche Marine|German Naval]] surrender. Moved to Australia in 1926 and served with [[Royal Australian Navy]] in [[World War II]]. Lived in [[Perth, Western Australia]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.worcesternews.co.uk/news/local/3830105.Veteran__107__is_last_man_to_serve_in_both_world_wars/|title=Veteran, 107, is last man to serve in both world wars|publisher=Worcester News|accessdate=2009-01-21 |last=|first=| date=2008-11-08}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.defence.gov.au/news/navynews/editions/05_13_02/story09.htm|title=500 km by bike to demolish Albany|publisher=Navy News|accessdate=2007-07-06 |last=Booth|first=Gary| date=2002-05-13}}</ref><ref>[http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/campaigns/our_boys/2557649/Claude-Choules-108last-of-the-WW1-heroes.html Claude, 108 ... last of the WW1 heroes]</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,25841206-12377,00.html|title= Claude Choules says WWI was 'boring'|last=Agence France-Presse |date=27 July 2009|publisher=The Australian|accessdate=2009-08-02|quote="Mr Choules was informed by his 80-year-old daughter Anne Pow over the weekend that the death of 111-year-old Harry Patch, Britain's last soldier who fought in the Great War's infamous trenches, had made him the country's sole survivor."}}</ref>
|-
|{{USA}}||[[Frank Buckles|Buckles, Frank Woodruff]]||{{dts|format=dmy|1901|February|1}}||{{dts|format=dmy|2011|2|27}} (110)||[[United States Army]] 1st [[Fort Riley]] Casual Detachment Last [[USA|American]] veteran. Joined in 1917. Ambulance driver near [[Western Front (World War I)|Western Front]]. Held prisoner in World War II as a civilian. Lived in [[Charles Town, West Virginia]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/11/11/eveningnews/main2174447.shtml |title=Oldest Living Heroes Remembered |publisher=CBS News |accessdate=2007-01-22 |date=2006-11-11|first=|last=}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=2695964&page=1 |title=Last WWI Veterans Get Their Due |publisher=ABC News |date=2006-12-02 |accessdate=2007-01-22 |author=Reynolds, Dean, and Stuart, Elizabeth}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cnn.com/2011/US/02/27/wwi.veteran.death/|title=Last living U.S. World War I veteran dies|publisher=CNN|date=2011-02-28|accessdate=2011-02-28|last=Courson|first=Paul}}</ref>
|-
|{{flagicon|Canada|1868}} [[Canada]]||[[John Babcock|Babcock, John Henry Foster (Jack)]]||{{dts|format=dmy|1900|7|23}}||{{dts|format=dmy|2010|2|18}} (109)||Last Canadian veteran. Declined [[state funeral]]. Joined in 1916. Served first in [[146th Battalion, CEF|146th, CEF]], then transferred to Boys Battalion. Completed training in UK but did not see action due to age. Moved to US in 1924. Lived in [[Spokane, Washington]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.wkowtv.com/Global/story.asp?S=12009482|title=Oldest Canadian World War I veteran dies|publisher=WKOW|date=2010-02-18|accessdate=2010-02-19}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2010/02/18/war-veteran018.html|title=Canada's last WW I veteran dies|publisher=CBC News|date=2010-02-19|accessdate=2010-02-19}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.thewhig.com/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=2455993|title=Last World War I vet Babcock dies at 109|publisher=The Kingston Whig Standard|date=2010-02-19|accessdate=2010-02-19|last=Elliot|first=Ian}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/obituaries/articles/2010/02/20/john_babcock_108_canadas_last_known_veteran_of_wwi/|title=John Babcock, 108; Canada's last known veteran of WWI|publisher=The Boston Globe|date=2010-02-20|accessdate=2010-04-01|last=Geranios|first=Nicholas K}}</ref>
|-
|{{UK}}||[[Harry Patch|Patch, Henry John (Harry)]]||17 June 1898||25 July 2009 (111)||Last [[Tommy Atkins|Tommy]]. Served in the [[British Army]] under the 7th [[Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry]]. Last veteran to serve in [[trench warfare|trenches]] and to be [[wounded in action]]. Called up in 1916. Last survivor of [[Battle of Passchendaele]]. [[Firefighter|Fireman]] in World War II. [[Europe|Europe's]] [[List of the verified oldest men|oldest man]] upon death. Lived in [[Wells]], [[Somerset]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/somerset/5090664.stm |title=WWI veteran celebrates 108 years|accessdate=2007-01-22|date=2006-10-30 |publisher=BBC Online News}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/somerset/6921217.stm |title=Veteran, 109, revisits WWI trench|accessdate=2007-07-29|date=2007-07-29|publisher=BBC Online News}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=Patch|first=Harry|coauthors =[[Richard van Emden|van Emden, Richard]]|title=The Last Fighting Tommy|publisher=[[Bloomsbury Publishing|Bloomsbury]]|year=2007|location=London|isbn=978-0-7475-9115-3}}</ref><ref>[http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/8168691.stm WWI veteran Patch dies aged 111]</ref>
|-
|{{UK}}||[[Henry Allingham|Allingham, Henry William]]||6 June 1896||18 July 2009 (113)||Last [[airman]]. Served in the 12 Squadron [[Royal Naval Air Service|RNAS]] (later [[Royal Air Force|RAF]]). Joined in 1915 as [[mechanic]]. Last veteran of the [[Battle of Jutland]]. [[List of living supercentenarians|World's oldest man]] and [[List of British supercentenarians|oldest ever British man]]. Oldest veteran ever to see action. Lived in [[Brighton]], [[Sussex]].<ref name=AllinMeier>{{cite web |url=http://observer.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,,1934438,00.html?gusrc=rss&feed=11 |title=Great War foes embrace as friends |accessdate=2007-01-22 |date=2006-10-29 |first=David|last=Smith |publisher=The Observer}}</ref><ref name=AllinMeier2>{{cite web |url=http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/tm_headline=old-enemies---new-friends-&method=full&objectid=18012398&siteid=94762-name_page.html |title=Old Enemies.. New Friends |first=Julie|last=Mccaffrey |accessdate=2007-01-22 |date=2006-10-30 |publisher=Mirror.co.uk}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8157128.stm|title=Oldest WWI veteran dies aged 113 |date=2009-07-18|publisher=BBC News|accessdate=2009-07-18}}</ref>
|-
|{{AUS}}||[[John Campbell Ross|Ross, John Campbell (Jack)]]||{{dts|format=dmy|1899|3|11}}||{{dts|format=dmy|2009|6|3}} (110)||Last Australian [[digger (soldier)|digger]] and the last veteran of any status to serve Australia in the conflict. Joined in early 1918 as wireless operator, but did not see action. Served in [[Volunteer Defence Corps (Australia)|Home Guard]] in World War II. Australia's oldest person. Lived in [[Bendigo, Victoria]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.theage.com.au/news/National/Last-Digger-to-fight-in-WWI-dies/2005/10/18/1129401230413.html |title=Last Aussie digger to fight in WWI dies |publisher=The Age |accessdate=2007-05-30 |last=|first=|date=2005-10-18}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,23358515-2,00.html |title=Oldest Digger celebrates turning 109 |publisher=news.com.au |accessdate=2008-11-06 |last=Turnbull|first=Jeff|date=2008-03-11}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.theage.com.au/national/last-remaining-digger-australias-oldest-man-jack-ross-dies-aged-110-20090603-buy4.html |title=Australia's oldest man Jack Ross dies aged 110 |publisher=theage.com.au |accessdate=2009-06-03 |last=|first=|date=2009-06-03}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/8080731.stm |title=Australia's oldest man, 110, dies |publisher=BBC News |accessdate=2009-06-03 |last=|first=|date=2009-06-03}}</ref>
|-
|{{UK}}||[[Netherwood Hughes|Hughes, Netherwood (Ned)]]||{{dts|format=dmy|1900|6|12}}||{{dts|format=dmy|2009|4|4}} (108)||Called up to the 51st [[Manchester Regiment]] in mid 1918 as [[truck]] driver. Did not see action as he was still in training. Lived in [[Accrington]], [[Lancashire]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.accringtonobserver.co.uk/news/s/1054848_old_neds_still_in_top_gear_for_his_108th_milestone| title=Old Ned's still in top gear for his 108th milestone| publisher=Accrington Observer| date=2008-06-20| accessdate=2008-08-14| last=Kenyon |first=Lisa}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/3491093/New-First-World-War-veteran-comes-to-light-through-internet.html| title='New' First World War veteran comes to light through internet| publisher=The Telegraph| date=2008-11-20| accessdate=2008-12-01| last=Bingham| first=John}}</ref>
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|{{UK}}||[[Bill Stone|Stone, William Frederick (Bill)]]||{{dts|format=dmy|1900|September|23}}||{{dts|format=dmy|2009|1|10}} (108)||Joined [[Royal Navy]] in 1918. Did not see action as he was still in training, but was also a [[World War II]] veteran. Lived in [[Reading, Berkshire]] at the time of his death.<ref name="Stone">{{cite web|last = Stone|first = Bill|authorlink = Bill Stone|title = Naval and Other Memories of William Frederick Stone|publisher = H.M.S. Hood Association|date = 2009-01-11|url = http://www.hmshood.com/crew/biography/wfstone_bio.htm|accessdate = 2009-01-11}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last = BBC News|title = Funeral of World War I veteran |publisher = BBC News|date = 2009-01-29|url = http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/7857261.stm|accessdate = 2009-01-29}}</ref>
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|{{flagcountry|Russian Empire}}||[[Krichevsky, Mikhail Efimovich]]|| 25 February 1897 || 26 December 2008 (111)|| 
Served for Russia. Joined up in 1917. Accounts differ as to whether he was sent to the Austro-Hungarian front. After [[October Revolution]] returned home. [[Ukraine]]'s oldest man. Lived in [[Donetsk]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://novosti.dn.ua/details/58826/|title=Последний в мире ветеран Первой мировой живет в Донецке (In Russian)|accessdate=2008-02-22|date=2008-02-22}}</ref><ref>[http://www.mv.org.ua/?news=15190 Mikhail Krichevsky obituary](In Russian)</ref>
|}

==Last veterans by nation==
The last surviving veteran of World War I per country is shown in the table below. 
{| class="wikitable sortable"
!Country
!Name
!Death date
!Age
|-
|{{flag|Algeria}}
|Saci Ben Hocine Mahdi<ref name="DDDAfr">{{cite web|url=http://dersdesders.free.fr/tirailleurs.html|title=Tirailleurs|language=French|publisher=Ders Des Ders|accessdate=2010-11-20}}</ref>
|{{dts|June 1998}}
|100 years
|-
|{{flag|Austria}}
|[[August Bischof]]<ref name="DDDAus">{{cite web|url=http://dersdesders.free.fr/autriche.html|title=Autriche|language=French|publisher=Ders Des Ders|accessdate=2010-11-20}}</ref>
|{{dts|4 March 2006}}
|107 years 
|-
|{{flag|Australia}}
|[[John Campbell Ross]]<ref name="Ross">{{cite web|url=http://www.theage.com.au/national/last-remaining-digger-australias-oldest-man-jack-ross-dies-aged-110-20090603-buy4.html|title=Australia's oldest man and Digger Jack Ross dies aged 110|publisher=The Age|accessdate=2011-02-15}}</ref>
|{{dts|3 June 2009}}
|110 years 
|-
|{{flag|Barbados}}
|[[George Blackman]]<ref>{{cite web|author=Simon Rogers |url=http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2003/mar/04/military.simonrogers |title=Caribbean veteran of first world war dies at 105 |publisher=Guardian |date= |accessdate=2010-11-04}}</ref>
|{{dts|March 2003}}
|105 years
|-
|{{flag|Belgium}}
|[[Cyrillus-Camillus Barbary]]<ref name="DDDBel">{{cite web|url=http://dersdesders.free.fr/belgique.html|title=Belgique|language=French|publisher=Ders Des Ders|accessdate=2010-11-20}}</ref>
|{{dts|16 September 2004 }}
|105 years
|-
|{{flag|Canada}}
|[[John Babcock]]<ref name="Babcock">{{cite web|url=http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/24/world/americas/24babcock.html|title=..John Babcock, Last Canadian World War I Veteran, Dies at 109|work=The New York Times|date=2010-02-24|accessdate=2010-11-20|last=Goldstein|first=Richard}}</ref>
|{{dts|18 February 2010}}
|109 years
|-
|{{flag|Czechoslovakia}}
|[[Alois Vocásek]]<ref name="DDDCze">{{cite web|url=http://dersdesders.free.fr/tcheque.html|title=REPUBLIQUE TCHEQUE|language=French|publisher=Ders Des Ders|accessdate=2010-11-20}}</ref>
|{{dts|9 August 2003}}
|107 years
|-
|{{flag|Denmark}}
|Lorenz Gram<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.genforeningsmuseet.dk/dsk/|title=DSK|language=Danish|publisher=Genforenings- og Grænsemuseet|date=2007-01-02|accessdate=2010-11-20|last=Thomsen|first=Leif}}</ref>
|{{dts|26 December 2004}}
|105 years
|-
|{{flag|Estonia}}
|[[Juhan Kallaste]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ohtuleht.ee/index.aspx?id=61927|title=Viljandis suri vanim eestlane|language=Estonian|publisher=Õhtuleht|date=1999-09-01|accessdate=2010-11-21|last=Viivik|first=Allar}}</ref>
|{{dts|28 August 1999}}
|107 years
|-
|{{flag|France}}
|[[Lazare Ponticelli]]<ref name="FrancePoilu">{{cite web|url=http://dersdesders.free.fr/bio_veterans/ponticelli.html|title=france|language=French|publisher=Ders Des Ders|accessdate=2011-05-28}}</ref>
(Last to be officially recognized as a [[poilu]].)
|{{dts|12 March 2008}}
|110 years
|-
|{{flag|France}}
|[[Pierre Picault]]<ref name="FranceOther">{{cite web|url=http://dersdesders.free.fr/france.html|title=france|language=French|publisher=Ders Des Ders|accessdate=2010-11-20}}</ref>
|{{dts|20 November 2008}}
|109 years
|-
|{{flag|Germany}}
|[[Erich Kästner (World War I veteran)|Erich Kästner]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/7210346.stm|title=Germany's 'last' WWI veteran dies|publisher=BBC|date=2008-01|accessdate=2010-11-20}}</ref>
|{{dts|1 January 2008}}
|107 years
|-
|{{flag|Guyana}}
|[[Gershom Browne]]<ref name="Browne">{{cite web|url=http://www.stabroeknews.com/2008/features/10/05/the-guyana-legion/.|title=The Guyana Legion|publisher=The Guyana Legion|date=2008-10-05|accessdate=2010-11-20|last=Granger|first=David}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.stabroeknews.com/2010/guyana-review/01/28/people-lives-remembered/|title=People… Lives remembered|publisher=Stabroek News|date=2010-01-28|accessdate=2010-11-20}}</ref>
|{{dts|6 December 2000}}
|102 years
|-
|{{flag|Hungary}}
|[[Franz Künstler]]<ref name="Künstler">{{cite web|url=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/30/world/europe/30kunstler.html?_r=1|title=Franz Künstler, Veteran of 2 Wars, Dies at 107 |work=The New York Times|date=2008-05-30|accessdate=2010-11-21}}</ref>
|{{dts|27 May 2008}}
|107 years
|-
|{{flag|Italy}}
|[[Delfino Borroni]]<ref name="Borroni">{{cite web|url=http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,24557283-12377,00.html |title=Delfino Borroni: Italy's last surviving veteran of the First World War |work=The Times |date=2008-10-30 |accessdate=2010-11-21}}</ref>
|{{dts|26 October 2008}}
|110 years
|-
|{{flag|Jamaica}}
|[[Stanley Stair]]<ref name="Stair">{{cite web|url=http://www.luceaonline.com/ |title=Death notice for Stanley Stair |publisher=Luceaonline.com |date= |accessdate=2010-11-04}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=|title=Onbekende veteraan uit Eerste Wereldoorlog overleden|language=Dutch|publisher= De Eerste Wereldoorlog 1914 - 1918 |date=2008-07|author=Nieuws van het Westelijk Front}}</ref>
|{{dts|April 2008}}
|107 years
|-
|{{flag|Netherlands}}
|Bert van Sloten<ref name="DDDNed">{{cite web|author=Ralf Roggeveen |url=http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/2005/sep/20/obituaries.readersobituaries |title=Obituary: Bert van Sloten|publisher=The Guardian |date=2005-09-20 |accessdate=2010-11-04}}</ref>
|{{dts|September 2005}}
|105 years
|-
|{{flag|Newfoundland and Labrador}}
|[[Wallace Pike]]<ref name="Pike">{{cite web|url=http://www.cbc.ca/news/story/1999/04/19/nf_pike990419.html |title=Last of Newfoundland's WW1 vets passes away|publisher=CBC|date=1999-04-19 |accessdate=2010-11-04}}</ref>
|{{dts|11 April 1999}}
|{{sort|099|&nbsp;99 years}}
|-
|{{flag|New Zealand}}
|[[Bright Williams]]<ref name="Williams1">{{cite web|url=http://www.rsa.org.nz/about/nws2003feb/media_release.html |title=The last Great War veterans |publisher=RNZRSA |date=2003-02 |accessdate=2010-11-04}}</ref>
|{{dts|13 February 2003}}
|105 years
|-
|{{flag|Philippines}}
|Eracleo Alimpolo<ref>{{cite web|url=http://members.tripod.com/philusnavy/histchalimpolocareer.htm |title=Last Filipino Veteran |publisher=Members.tripod.com |date= |accessdate=2010-11-04}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Search/ssdi/individual_record.asp?recid=531324777&lds=3&region=%2D1&regionfriendly=&juris1=&juris2=&juris3=&juris4=&regionfriendly=&juris1friendly=All+States&juris2friendly=&juris3friendly=&juris4friendly= |title=Eracleo ALIMPOLO|publisher=Family Search|accessdate=2010-11-04}}</ref>
|{{dts|2 October 2002}}
|104 years
|-
|{{flag|Poland}}
|[[Stanisław Wycech]]<ref name="Wycech">{{cite web|url=http://www.omantribune.com/index.php?page=news&id=19774&heading=Europe |title=Poland's WWI veteran Stanislaw passes away |publisher=Oman Tribune|date= |accessdate=2010-11-04}}</ref>
|{{dts|12 January 2008}}
|105 years
|-
|{{flag|Portugal}}
|José Ladeira<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.geneall.net/P/forum_msg.php?id=221424&fview=e|title=1643 portugueses mortos na grande guerra em França|language=Portuguese|publisher=Fórum de Genealogia|date=2005-09-07|accessdate=2010-11-21|last=Silva|first=Carlos|quote=Filipe Prista Lucas, a [[Gerontology Research Group|GRG]] correspondent says quote (translated from Portuguese) "According to the information I hold, the last Portuguese veteran of World War I he died in 2003. His name was Jose Luis Ladeira, and died on May 5, 2003, in Goshen Valley, Miranda do Corvo, 107 years old."}}</ref>
|{{dts|5 May 2003}}
|107 years
|-
|{{flag|Romania}}
|[[Gheorghe Pănculescu (general)|Gheorghe Pănculescu]]<ref name="DDDRom">{{cite web|url=http://dersdesders.free.fr/roumanie.html|title=ROUMANIE|language=French|publisher=Ders Des Ders|accessdate=2010-11-21}}</ref>
|{{dts|9 January 2007}}
|104 years
|-
|{{flag|Russian Federation}}
|Dmitry Malozemov<ref name="Russia">{{cite web|url=http://www.aif.ru/society/article/22560|title=Последний герой Первой мировой. "AиФ" нашёл могилу самого стойкого солдата Великой войны|language=Russian|publisher=Аргументы и факты|date=2008-11-12|accessdate=2011-03-21|last=Osipov|first=Sergei}}</ref> 
|{{dts|13 May 1998}}
|101 years
|-
|{{flag|Senegal}}
|Abdoulaye N'Diaye<ref name="DDDAfr"/>
|{{dts|10 November 1998}}
|104 years
|-
|{{flag|Serbia}}
|Aleksa Radovanović<ref name="Serbia">{{cite web|url=http://arhiva.kurir-info.rs/Arhiva/2004/jun/26-27/V-09-26062004.shtml|title=ODLAZAK POSLEDNJEG SRPSKOG SOLUNCA|language=Serbian|publisher=Kurir|date=2004-06-26/27|accessdate=2010-11-21|last=Racić|first=M.}}</ref>
|{{dts|22 June 2004}}
|105 years
|-
|{{flag|Slovenia}}
|Ivan Kovačič<ref name="DDDSlo">{{cite web|url=http://dersdesders.free.fr/pays.html|title=Autres Pays|language=French|publisher=Ders Des Ders|accessdate=2010-11-21}}</ref>
|{{dts|16 April 2001}}
|103 years
|-
|{{flag|South Africa}}
|Norman Kark<ref name="Kark">{{cite web|url=http://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-27692861_ITM |title=Longest serving Stationer dies at the wonderful age of 102 |publisher=Highbeam Business|date=2000-04-17 |accessdate=2010-11-04|author=Printing World}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.crimetime.co.uk/community/mag.php/showcomments/587|title=Collecting Crime: London Mystery Magazine - Part Two|publisher=Crime Time|date=2010-11-11|accessdate=2010-11-21|last=Ashley|first=Mike}}</ref>
|{{dts|March 2000}}
|102 years
|-
|{{flag|Thailand}}
|Yod Sangrungruang<ref name="Yod">{{cite web|url=http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/world/archives/2003/10/11/2003071220 |title=Last WW1 veteran dies |publisher=Taipei Times |date=2003-10-11 |accessdate=2010-11-04}}</ref>
|{{dts|9 October 2003}}
|106 years
|-
|{{flag|Turkey}}
|[[Yakup Satar]]<ref name="Satar">{{cite web|url=http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article3676439.ece|title=Yakup Satar|work=The Times|date=2008-04-03|accessdate=2010-11-21}}</ref>
|{{dts|2 April 2008}}
|110 years
|-
|{{flag|Ukraine}}
|[[Mikhail Krichevsky]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://novosti.dn.ua/details/58826/|title=Последний в мире ветеран Первой мировой живет в Донецке (фото) 
|language=Russian|publisher=Интернет-газета Донбасса|date=2008-02-22|accessdate=2010-11-21}}</ref><ref name="Krichevsky">{{cite web|url=http://jta.org/news/article/2009/01/05/1002004/oldest-known-ukrainian-jew-dies-at-111|title=Oldest known Ukrainian Jew dies at 111|publisher=JTA|date=2009-01-05 |accessdate=2010-11-04}}</ref>
|{{dts|26 December 2008}}
|111 years
|-
|{{flag|United Kingdom}}
|[[Florence Green]]<ref name="United Kingdom2">{{cite web |url=http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/9066371/Last-surviving-veteran-of-First-World-War-dies-aged-110.html|title=Last surviving veteran of First World War dies aged 110 |publisher=The Telegraph |accessdate=2012-02-07}}</ref>
|{{dts|4 February 2012}}
|110 years
|-
|{{flag|United States}}
|[[Frank Buckles]]<ref name="Buckles">{{cite web|url=http://www.cnn.com/2011/US/02/27/wwi.veteran.death/|title=Last living U.S. World War I veteran dies|publisher=CNN|date=2011-02-28|accessdate=2011-02-28|last=Courson|first=Paul}}</ref>
|{{dts|27 February 2011}}
|110 years
|}

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==References==
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==External links==
* [http://www.the-great-war-society.org/ The Great War Society]
* [http://www.westernfrontassociation.com/ The Western Front Association]
* [http://www.wfa-usa.org/ The Western Front Association – US branch]
* [http://www.gwpda.org/ The Great War Primary Documents Archive]
* [http://www.prx.org/pieces/14652/stationinfo Public Radio Exchange (PRX) Walter Cronkite interviews some last surviving veterans of WWI]
* [http://www.tggf.us/World%20War%20I.html World War One "The Great War"]

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