WW1 last german dies

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/a ... ge_id=1811

Three Englishmen and one Frenchman remain as the sole European survivors of this ghastly conflict. Sobering thought for the day: our generation will see the passing of the last survivors of both WWI and WWII.

When did the last WW1 pilot die? i heard 2003? maybe?

[Stieglitz]

Strange to notice that this fact passes unnoticed. Certainly the end of a generation. How time passes.

RIP to all from the great war.

[Steve S]

Does anyone know how many American Veterans of the Great War are still alive.

It seems that we are always talking about losing our Greatest Generation veterans and we don't really talk much about the suvivors of this war- which was really the impetus for most of todays world events.

Steve S

[ArtS]

One British flier is still alive according to the article linked to at the beginning of this thread.

Royal Naval Air Service flier Henry Allingham, 111. Henry Allingham is Britain's last survivor of the Battle of Jutland, the sea clash between the British and German fleets that cost 7,000 sailors their lives. He flew as a spotter for the battleships in a Sopwith plane.

Regards,

Art S.

[Steve Nelson]

I just saw and article recently about a US WWI vet dying..it not the last, he was one of the handful left. The article said he joined up in 1918, and never went overseas, so he was more of a WWI-era vet.

<edit> Wiki has a pretty comprehensive page on WWI survivors here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surviving_veterans_of_World_War_I It says it was updated today, so the info is current...being Wiki, you be the judge of the accuracy.

SN

[bdk]

Wasn't there a British balloon pilot surviving?