(Hat tip Morris Hounion)

The other day I posted about aging veterans and linked to an article about the last two known living uniformed service personnel of the First World War.  I say last “known” because it is conceivable that a tommie, doughboy, ANZAC, or other veteran of the Great War may still be living without our knowledge that said person was a soldier in the conflict.  Amazingly two days after the article appeared one of the two people mentioned has passed on.  Australian Claude Stanley Choules died yesterday in Sydney.  He was the final combat veteran of the Great War.  This means that the last known surviving World War I uniformed service person is Florence Green, who was a waitress with the Women’s Royal Air Force in the months just prior to the Armistice.