User:AMK152/Last veterans of World War I

The last living veteran of World War I (28 July 1914 – 11 November 1918) was Florence Green, a British woman who served in the Allied armed forces, and who died on 4 February 2012, aged 110. The last combat veteran was Claude Choules who served in the British Royal Navy (and later the Royal Australian Navy) and died 5 May 2011, aged 110. The last veteran who served in the trenches was Harry Patch who died on 25 July 2009, aged 111. The last Central Powers veteran, Franz Künstler of Austria-Hungary, died on 27 May 2008 at the age of 107.

The total number of participating personnel is estimated by the Encyclopædia Britannica at 65,038,810. There were approximately 9,750,103 military deaths during the conflict.

Veterans, for this purpose, are defined as people who were members of the armed forces of one of the combatant nations up to and including the date of the Armistice. This policy may vary from the policy in actual use in some countries. There is one living World War I-era veteran, listed below.

Last 10 veterans
The last 10 surviving veterans of World War I is shown in the table below.

Last veterans by nation
The last surviving veteran of World War I per country is shown in the table below.