Last First World War veteran dies

[Ivo]

News coming out of King's Lynn this evening indicates that the world has lost its last surviving veteran of the First World War...

From MSN

The world's last surviving First World War service member has died aged 110.

Florence Green died in her sleep at Briar House care home in King's Lynn on Saturday. She would have celebrated her 111th birthday on February 19. She was believed to be the last person alive who served in the war.

The world's last known combat veteran of the First World War, Claude Choules, died in Australia aged 110 in May 2011.

Florence Green, a great-grandmother, joined the Women's Royal Air Force (WRAF) as a 17-year-old in the late summer of 1918.

None of us obviously have any memory of the First World War, but everyone knows that it was a pivotal moment in European history and the mark of the beginning of the end of the most recent Age of Empires, as most of the major world Empires - all but the British and the French - collapsed during this time. It was often said meanwhile that Germany lost the war for non-military reasons - but rather, they became bankrupt...

 

[MidnightFlyer]

Very sad to hear, RIP, and RIP to all those who gave their lives fighting for their king and country.

 

[deltic1989]

They shall not grow old as we who are left grow old. Age shall noy weary them, nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun and in the morning..........We WILL Remember them.
Rest in Peace Ms green.