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 |
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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... .) |
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... |
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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 |
See also
- List of last living war veterans
- List of surviving veterans of World War I