Last surviving World War I veteran by country
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The last surviving veteran of World War I per country is shown in the table below, along with any living veterans.
Country Name Death date Age
 Algeria Saci Ben Hocine Mahdi 100 years
 Austria August Bischof
August Bischof
August Bischof was, at age 105, the last living Austrian World War I veteran.- See also :List of veterans of World War I who died in 2006List of last surviving World War I veterans by country...

107 years
 Australia John Campbell Ross
John Campbell Ross
John Campbell Ross was at the time of his death Australia's oldest man and the last Australian veteran of the First World War ....

110 years
 Barbados George Blackman
George Blackman
George Blackman , was born in Barbados and served as a Private in the 4th British West Indies Regiment during the First World War...

105 years
 Belgium Cyrillus-Camillus Barbary
Cyrillus-Camillus Barbary
Cyrillus-Camillus Barbary was the last known Belgian veteran of the First World War. He served on the Western Front for the last few weeks of the war...

105 years
 Canada John Babcock
John Babcock
John Henry Foster "Jack" Babcock was, at age 109, the last known surviving veteran of the Canadian military to have served in the First World War and, after the death of Harry Patch, was the conflict's oldest surviving veteran...

109 years
 Czechoslovakia Alois Vocásek
Alois Vocásek
Alois Vocásek was the last surviving Czechoslovakian veteran of the First World War and the last survivor of the Battle of Zborov in Ukraine. He was one of thousands of Czechs and Slovaks who broke with the Austro-Hungarian monarchy to fight for the future Czechoslovak state as members of the...

107 years
 Denmark Lorenz Gram 105 years
 Estonia Juhan Kallaste
Juhan Kallaste
Juhan Kallaste was an Estonian cleric and actor thought to be the oldest Estonian male on record. He lived for . Before his death he was also the oldest living Estonian...

107 years
 Early Modern France Lazare Ponticelli
Lazare Ponticelli
Lazare Ponticelli , Knight of Vittorio Veneto, was at 110, the last surviving officially recognized veteran of the First World War from France and the last poilu of its trenches to die. Born in Italy, he travelled on his own to France at the age of eight...


(Last to be officially recognized as a poilu
Poilu
Poilu is a warmly informal term for a French World War I infantryman, meaning, literally, hairy one. The term came into popular usage in France during the era of Napoleon Bonaparte and his massive citizen armies, though the term grognard was also common. It is still widely used as a term of...

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110 years
 Early Modern France Pierre Picault
Pierre Picault
Pierre Picault was, at age 109, France's last surviving French veteran of World War I and eldest man. He became the last French World War I veteran following the death of 108-year-old Fernand Goux on 9 November 2008....

109 years
 Germany Erich Kästner
Erich Kästner (World War I veteran)
Dr. Erich Kästner was the last documented World War I veteran who fought for the German Empire and the last who was born in Germany. Consequently he was the last Central Powers combatant of the Western Front. He was also the second oldest man in Germany...

107 years
 Guyana Gershom Browne
Gershom Browne
Gershom Browne was the last known Guyana First World War veteran, he served in the 1st British West Indies Regiment and fought on the Western Front during the war...

102 years
 Hungary Franz Künstler
Franz Künstler
Franz Künstler was, at age 107, the last known surviving veteran of the First World War who fought for the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Following the death of 110-year-old Ottoman veteran Yakup Satar on April 2, 2008, he was also the last Central Powers veteran of any nationality...

107 years
 Italy Delfino Borroni 110 years
 Jamaica Stanley Stair
Stanley Stair
Stanley Stair was the last British West Indies Regiment veteran. He Enlisted into the Infantry in 1918. At the end of the war he was awarded the British War Medal and the Victory Medal....

107 years
 Netherlands Bert van Sloten 105 years
 Newfoundland and Labrador Wallace Pike
Wallace Pike
Wallace Pike was the last known Newfoundland World War I veteran. He enlisted in the Royal Newfoundland Regiment as an underage soldier. He fought on the western front where he was wounded twice, once in the leg and once in the hand. At the end of his military service he held the rank of private...

 New Zealand Bright Williams
Bright Williams
Bright Ernest Williams, was, at the time of his death, the last New Zealand World War I veteran out of the 100,444 New Zealanders to fight in that war....

105 years
 Philippines Eracleo Alimpolo 104 years
 Poland Stanisław Wycech 105 years
 Portugal José Ladeira 107 years
 Kingdom of Romania Gheorghe Pănculescu
Gheorghe Panculescu
Gheorghe C. Pănculescu was the last Romanian World War I veteran and one of the last World War I veterans in the world. Pănculescu was born in Warsaw, then part of the Russian Empire. In 1918 at the age of 15, he enlisted underage into the Romanian Army, and served in World War I, though without...

104 years
 Russia Dmitry Malozemov 101 years
 Senegal Abdoulaye N'Diaye 104 years
 Serbia Aleksa Radovanović 105 years
 Slovenia Ivan Kovačič 103 years
 South Africa Norman Kark 102 years
 Thailand Yod Sangrungruang 106 years
 Turkey Yakup Satar
Yakup Satar
Yakup Satar was, at 110, believed to have been the last Turkish veteran of the First World War. He died at age 110....

110 years
 Ukraine Mikhail Krichevsky
Mikhail Efimovich Krichevsky
Mikhail Efimovich Krichevsky was Ukraine's last surviving World War I veteran. He joined the army in 1917. Accounts differ as to whether he was sent to the Austro-Hungarian front. After the October Revolution he returned home...

111 years
 United Kingdom Florence Green
Florence Green
Florence Beatrice Green is the last known living veteran of the First World War. She was a member of the Women's Royal Air Force.-Biography:...

Living years
 United States Frank Buckles
Frank Buckles
Frank Woodruff Buckles was the last surviving American veteran of World War I. He enlisted in the United States Army in 1917 and served with a detachment from Fort Riley, driving ambulances and motorcycles near the front lines in Europe.During World War II, he was captured by Japanese forces...

110 years

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