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Win2Win Racing
5th May 2011, 09:01
The world's last known combat veteran of World War I, Claude "Chuckles" Choules, dies in an Australian nursing home at the age of 110.

More... (http://www.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/int/news/-/news/world-asia-pacific-13289607)

Win2Win
5th May 2011, 09:04
Awww :mad: .... no living connection to WW1.... well, apart from the odd tortoise .... and if you met my mums tortoise , it's very odd :crazy:

MattR
6th May 2011, 21:12
Is it suffering from shellshock? :ermmm:biggrin:

Bet he never thought he'd almost live until the 100 yr anniversary of the 1st world war! (not the tortoise) In fact with the trench warfare it's a wonder anyone came home!

Godspot
6th May 2011, 22:07
In fact with the trench warfare it's a wonder anyone came home!

Don't forget the Spanish Flu which killed just as many again, if not more....