World War One - the last veterans
This is a list of the last surviving World War I veterans by country.
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.
This project aims to collect all genealogical profiles of the veterans
See List of last surviving World War one veterans
Austria
- August Bischof - (18 August 1900 – 4 March 2006) no relatives added yet
Australia
- John Campbell "Jack" Ross - ( 11 March 1899 – 3 June 2009)
Belgium
- Cyrillus-Camillus Barbary - (4 August 1899 – 16 September 2004)
Brazil
- Waldemar Levy Cardoso - (December 4, 1900 – May 13, 2009)
Canada
- John Babcock - (July 23, 1900 – February 18, 2010)
China
- Zhu Guisheng - (1897- 5 March 2002)
Czechoslovakia
- Alois Vocásek - (13 April 1896 – 9 August 2003)
France
- Pierre Picault - (27 February 1899 – 20 November 2008)
Germany
- Erich Kästner- (10 March 1900 – 1 January 2008)
Hungary
- Künstler Ferenc - ( July 24, 1900 – May 27, 2008)
India
- Robert Francis Ruttledge - ( abt 1900 - 12 January 2002)
Italy
- Delfino Edmondo Borroni - (August 23, 1898 – October 26, 2008)
Japan
- Matsuda Chiaki (Japanese: 松田千秋) - (29 September 1896 – 6 November 1995)
Montenegro
- Danilo Dajković ( 1895 - 14 September 1993)
Newfoundland
- Wallace Pike - (22 December 1899 – 11 April 1999)
New Zealand
- Bright Ernest Williams - (27 February 1897 – 13 February 2003)
Turkey
- Yakup Satar - ( 11 March 1898 - April 2, 2008)
Poland
- Stanisław Wycech - (June 27, 1902, Sadoleś – January 12, 2008)
Portugal
- José Ladeira - ( 1900? - 5 May 2003)
Romania
- Gheorghe C. Pănculescu - (March 26, 1903 – January 7, 2007)
Russia
- Mikhail Efimovich Krichevsky (Ukrainian: Михайло Юхимович Кричевський - ( 25 February 1897 – 26 December 2008)
Serbia
- Aleksa Radovanović - (August 2, 1900 – June 23, 2004)
Thailand
- Yod Sangrungruang - ( ? - 9 October 2003)
South Africa
- Norman Kark - ( ? - March 2000)
United Kingdom
- Florence Beatrice Green (née Patterson)- ( 19 February 1901 – 4 February 2012)
United States
- Frank Woodruff Buckles - (February 1, 1901 – February 27, 2011)