To: SittinYonder
anyone have any idea how many vets other than scottish vets are left?
7 posted on
11/23/2005 12:28:53 PM PST by
Vaquero
("An armed society is a polite society" R. A. Heinlein)
To: Vaquero
I've wondered that, too. Can't be many left.
8 posted on
11/23/2005 12:30:31 PM PST by
SittinYonder
(Flea, feather, bird, egg, nest, twig, branch, limb, tree, and the bog down in the valley - o.)
To: Vaquero
It seems I recall that the last Australian vet of WW1 died several weeks ago.
This article published somewhere else said there were fewer than 10 remaining in the UK.
I imagine the number here stateside is very low also.
God bless you Scotsman. Rest in peace. Well done!
14 posted on
11/23/2005 12:41:17 PM PST by
armydawg1
(" America must win this war..." PVT Martin Treptow, KIA, WW1)
To: Vaquero
anyone have any idea how many vets other than scottish vets are left? Around a humdred, worldwide:
http://tinyurl.com/bwc86
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surviving_Veterans_of_the_First_World_War#World_Totals
To: Vaquero
I think I read a couple months back that Australia's last WW1 vet died...
109 year old Scot veteran! The history of aviation isn't that long.
20 posted on
11/23/2005 12:56:21 PM PST by
Tallguy
To: Vaquero
25 posted on
11/23/2005 2:30:34 PM PST by
Vaquero
("An armed society is a polite society" R. A. Heinlein)
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