List of last surviving World War I veterans by country facts for kids

The last living veteran of World War I was Florence Green. She was a British woman who served in the Allied armed forces, and who died on 4 February 2012, aged 110. The last veteran who served in combat was Claude Choules. He 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 was Franz Künstler from Austria-Hungary. He died on 27 May 2008 at the age of 107.

The total number of people who took part in WWI is estimated by the Encyclopædia Britannica at 65,038,810. There were around 9,750,103 military deaths during the conflict.

Overall

Country	Name	Death date	Age
Algeria	Saci Ben Hocine Mahdi	June 1998	100 years
Austria	August Bischof	4 March 2006	107 years
Australia	John Campbell Ross	3 June 2009	110 years
Barbados	George Blackman	March 2003	105 years
Belgium	Cyrillus-Camillus Barbary	16 September 2004	105 years
Canada	John Babcock	18 February 2010	109 years
Czechoslovakia	Alois Vocásek	9 August 2003	107 years
Denmark	Lorenz Gram	26 December 2004	105 years
Estonia	Juhan Kallaste	28 August 1999	107 years
France	Pierre Picault	20 November 2008	109 years
Germany	Erich Kästner	1 January 2008	107 years
Guyana	Gershom Browne	6 December 2000	102 years
Hungary	Franz Künstler	27 May 2008	107 years
Italy	Delfino Borroni	26 October 2008	110 years
Jamaica	Stanley Stair	April 2008	107 years
Netherlands	Bert van Sloten	September 2005	105 years
Newfoundland	Wallace Pike	11 April 1999	099  99 years
New Zealand	Bright Williams	13 February 2003	105 years
Philippines	Eracleo Alimpolo	2 October 2002	104 years
Poland	Stanisław Wycech	12 January 2008	105 years
Portugal	José Ladeira	5 May 2003	107 years
Romania	Gheorghe Pănculescu	9 January 2007	104 years
Russia	Dmitry Malozemov	13 May 1998	101 years
Senegal	Abdoulaye N'Diaye	10 November 1998	104 years
Serbia	Aleksa Radovanović	22 June 2004	105 years
Slovenia	Ivan Kovačič	16 April 2001	103 years
South Africa	Norman Kark	March 2000	102 years
Thailand	Yod Sangrungruang	9 October 2003	106 years
Turkey	Yakup Satar	2 April 2008	110 years
Ukraine	Mikhail Krichevsky	26 December 2008	111 years
United Kingdom	Florence Green	4 February 2012	110 years
United States	Frank Buckles	27 February 2011	110 years

By branch

This is the list of the last living veterans of World War I by the country and the branch that they served: