Last First World War veteran dies

PeterIanStaker · 05-05-2011 9:16pm #1

The last known combat veteran of the First World War has died at the age of 110, his family has said.
British-born Claude Stanley Choules, who was known as "Chuckles" by his comrades, joined the Royal Navy aged just 14 and witnessed the scuttling of the German fleet at Scapa Flow in 1919.
He emigrated to Australia in the 1920s and served in the military for 41 years before retiring and publishing his first book at the age of 108.
Mr Choules's family said he passed away on Thursday at a nursing home in the western Australian city of Perth. Following his death, his daughter Daphne Edinger, 84, said: "We all loved him. It's going to be sad to think of him not being here any longer, but that's the way things go."

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