News Sad news: the last combatant of the WWI has died

[SiberianTiger]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-13289607

The world's last known combat veteran of World War I, Claude Choules, has died in Australia aged 110.

Known to his comrades as Chuckles, British-born Mr Choules joined the Royal Navy at 15 and went on to serve on HMS Revenge.

He moved to Australia in the 1920s and served in the military until 1956.

Mr Choules, who had been married to his wife Ethel for 76 years, was reported to have died in his sleep at a nursing home in his adopted city of Perth.

Rest in Peace.

 

[Grover]

R.I.P, and god bless

not a bad age to die though, not many people make it to 110.

 

[Ghostrider]

Somber maybe, but not really sad. He lived long and well - 22 grandchildren! What's sad what that he was blind and deaf in his later years.
I guess to people who have gone through the stuff he had to, life must have tasted sweeter than to most of us...