Last known WWI veteran Florence Green dies at 110

Florence Green never saw the front line. Her war was spent serving food, not dodging bullets. But Green, who has died aged 110, was the last known surviving veteran of World War I. She was serving with the Women's Royal...

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My Service on the Battle Cruiser Goeben

Otto Runkel was born in Cologne, Germany on 28 June 1892. He joined the Imperial German Navy in 1912 at age 20 and served until November 1918. From his enlistment until 1916 he was a Gunner First Class in Alpha...

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Armistice Day Service on 11/11/11 at Christ Church Cathedral

A Remembrance / Armistice Day service was conducted by members of the Order of the First World War and others on 11 November 2011 at Christ Church Cathedral, Hartford, Connecticut. The service, followed the format instituted by the Chaplain General...

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Ex RN ship to be named after last WWI vet

The name of the very last World War One veteran, Claude Choules, is to live on in a RAN ship that has served two navies, just like him.Mr Choules, who died in Western Australia on May 5 aged 110, was...

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Resilience of the poetic spirit

BIOGRAPHY: Now All Roads Lead to France: The Last Years of Edward Thomas , By Matthew Hollis, Faber, 389pp. £20WHAT IS it about the first World War that coming on to 100 years since it began there is still a...

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The Human Toll Of The War 'To End All Wars'

August 11, 2011The human cost of World War I was enormous. More than 9 million soldiers and an estimated 12 million civilians died in the four-year-long conflict, which also left 21 million military men wounded."Many of them were missing arms,...

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Welsh hero Simon Weston calls the shots as World War One engulfs Downton Abbey

MILLIONS of fans were engrossed in Downton Abbey's portrayal of a vanished way of life.And, as the aristocratic period drama, which costs £1m an episode, returns for a second series, the characters' lives are torn apart with the onset of...

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France honours newly identified Australian war dead

FROMELLES, France, July 20, 2011 (AFP) - - The graves of 14 newly identified Australian World War I soldiers were consecrated Tuesday in the French fields where they lie, 95 years after they died along with thousands of comrades."It's a...

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Otto von Habsburg who saw end of empire dead at 98

BERLIN (AP) -- Otto von Habsburg saw the crumbling of the empire his family had ruled for centuries and emerged from its ashes as a champion of a united and democratic Europe.The oldest son of Austria-Hungary's last emperor fought Nazism...

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FLORENCE BEATRICE GREEN LAST VETERAN OF WORLD WAR I

Florence Beatrice Green (nee' Patterson) is the last Veteran of World War I.  She was born 19 February 1901 in Edmonton, a suburb north of London, England to Frederick and Sarah (nee' Neal) Patterson.  Florence Green joined the Women's Royal...

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