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Last World War I combat vet dies in Australia
Associated Press ^ | May 4, 2011 | KRISTEN GELINEAU

Posted on 05/04/2011 8:20:10 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY

SYDNEY — Claude Stanley Choules, the last known combat veteran of World War I, died Thursday at a nursing home in the Western Australia city of Perth, his family said. He was 110.

"We all loved him," his 84-year-old daughter Daphne Edinger told The Associated Press. "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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TOPICS: Extended News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: claudestanleychoules; veterans; worldwarone; ww1

1 posted on 05/04/2011 8:20:12 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Farewell, sir.


2 posted on 05/04/2011 8:21:47 PM PDT by Jeff Winston
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Godspeed Mr. Choules, the last soldier standing.


3 posted on 05/04/2011 8:22:33 PM PDT by Free Vulcan (Vote Republican! You can vote Democrat when you're dead.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY
his 84-year-old daughter Daphne Edinger

!!!!!

4 posted on 05/04/2011 8:27:23 PM PDT by relictele
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To: Free ThinkerNY

I thought there was still a Hungarian vet alive.


5 posted on 05/04/2011 8:36:25 PM PDT by fso301
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To: Free ThinkerNY
As a child, he was told his mother had died — a lie meant to cover a more painful truth: she left when he was 5 to pursue an acting career. The abandonment affected him profoundly, Pow said, and he grew up determined to create a happy home for his own children.

Today she could have aborted him

6 posted on 05/04/2011 8:37:21 PM PDT by fso301
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To: Free ThinkerNY

RIP.


7 posted on 05/04/2011 8:44:01 PM PDT by newzjunkey (Stay focused: Debt, Deficits & Immigration.)
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To: fso301

There is a Pole and a woman from the UK still living. Neither saw WWI combat, but both served. They are the very last.


8 posted on 05/04/2011 8:51:48 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy (The USSR spent itself into bankruptcy and collapsed -- and aren't we on the same path now?)
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9 posted on 05/04/2011 8:56:22 PM PDT by musicman (Until I see the REAL Long Form Vault BC, he's just "PRES__ENT" Obama = Without "ID")
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To: Free ThinkerNY

The war to end all wars. What a momentous time. May he RIP.


10 posted on 05/04/2011 8:56:44 PM PDT by Ciexyz
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Lovely article. So inspirational. Of the combatants on both sides, only a handful are still remembered in any detail - the Red Baron von Richtofen, T. E. Lawrence.


11 posted on 05/04/2011 9:05:27 PM PDT by Ciexyz
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To: Free ThinkerNY

My grandfather was a WWI vet.


12 posted on 05/04/2011 9:14:52 PM PDT by Coleus (Adult Stem Cells Work, there is NO Need to Harvest Babies for Their Body Parts!)
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To: relictele

yeah some serious genetic longevity at work there.


13 posted on 05/04/2011 9:58:00 PM PDT by WoofDog123
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Good on ya! Thank you for your service!


14 posted on 05/04/2011 10:40:38 PM PDT by jocon307
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To: Ciexyz
Of the combatants on both sides, only a handful are still remembered in any detail

And so many hundreds of thousands were ground into hamburger in the mud for a gain of a few hundred yards. What an insane war. It took until the end of the century for its echoes to finally die out.

15 posted on 05/05/2011 6:40:34 AM PDT by dirtboy
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To: Free ThinkerNY
I love the many quaint English last names.

This old navy vet married Ethel Wildgoose who died at age 98.

RIP.

Leni

16 posted on 05/05/2011 8:42:00 AM PDT by MinuteGal
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