John Babcock dies...last WWI Canadian vet at 110 years young....

by oompa 5 Replies latest jw friends

  • oompa
    oompa

    there must be soooooo few many left of that time.....anybody know how may vets of that war are left?..........oompa

  • PopeOfEruke
    PopeOfEruke

    Oompa

    my Dad was a WWI vet, he would have turned 110 this year if he was still alive.

    He died in the mid-1980's...

    Pope

  • whoknows
    whoknows

    There was another died in England recently. Will it make them think - probably not. It is good to see your face again Oompa.

  • finallysomepride
    finallysomepride

    This is from wikianswers:

    Here are the last veterans from several countries.

    • Australia- John Campbell Ross died on June 3rd 2009, aged 110. Born on March 11th, 1899.
    • Canada- John "Jack" Babcock was born on July 23rd, 1900, age 109.
    • France- Pierre Picault died on November 20th 2009, aged 109. Born on February 27th, 1899.
    • Germany- Erich Kästner died on January 1st 2008, aged 107. Born on March 10th, 1900.
    • Hungary- Franz Künstler died on May 27, 2008, aged 107. Born on July 24, 1900. Last Central Powers veteran.
    • Italy- Delfino Edmundo Borroni; born on August 23rd 1898; died on October 26th, 2008, aged 110. Fought on the Alpine Front.
    • New Zealand- Victor "Bob" Rudd died on November 20th, 2005 aged 104. Born on April 28th, 1901.
    • Poland- Stanislaw Wycech died on January 12th, 2008, aged 105. Born on June 27, 1902.
    • Turkey- Yakup Satar died on April 2nd 2008, aged 110. Born on March 11, 1898.
    • United Kingdom- Claude Stanley Choules was born on March 3rd, 1901, age 108.
    • United States- Frank Woodruff Buckles was born on February 1st, 1901, age 108.
  • oompa
    oompa

    most amazing was he died in a luge accident.........oompa

  • OnTheWayOut
    OnTheWayOut

    From http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/24/world/americas/24babcock.html

    But in the final years of his life he was celebrated by his countrymen for representing what Mr. Harper called “the generation that asserted our independence on the world stage.”

    His death leaves Frank Buckles, 109, of Charles Town, W.Va., as the last surviving American citizen to have served in an Allied military force during World War I.

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