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Buschman
05-05-2011, 06:43 AM
The last of the heroes of the first great war.

Claude Stanley Choules, the last known combat veteran of the First World War, died Thursday in Perth, Western Australia, his family said.

The British-born Mr. Choules, who spent more than 40 years in the Royal Navy in England and Australia, was 110.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703992704576304533394905052.html

Laney
05-06-2011, 08:51 PM
WOW!! 110 years young. I'd say he was living right.



May he R.I.P.

ozzman62
05-07-2011, 10:03 AM
Thank you for your Service Mr. Choules it is because of men like you we have the freedoms we take for granted on a daily basis .

Rest well Sir .