Last WWI veteran dies at age 110

[Win2Win Racing]

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.

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[Win2Win]

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]

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]

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....