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    Claude Stanley Choules (/ˈʃuːlz/; 3 March 1901 – 5 May 2011) was a British-born military serviceman from Pershore, Worcestershire, who at the time of his...
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    WA war veteran Claude Choules". PerthNow. The Sunday Times. Retrieved 14 August 2011. O'Callaghan, James (24 November 2011). "Choules on her way". Navy...
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  • 2009). "Claude Choules says WWI was 'boring'". The Australian. Archived from the original on 25 May 2012. Retrieved 2 August 2009. Mr Choules was informed...
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    veteran of any sort from the First World War, behind British veterans Claude Choules and Florence Green, Frank Buckles of the United States and John Babcock...
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  • living in the United Kingdom, all of whom were women. With the death of Claude Choules on 5 May 2011, Green became the last known living veteran of the First...
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    World War I in any capacity was Florence Green, who died in 2012, while Claude Choules, the last veteran to have been involved in combat, had died the previous...
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    (basketball), Swiss basketball player Claude Cheysson (1920–2012), French politician Claude Cholat, French painter Claude Choules (1901–2011), British WWI veteran...
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  • system for elections to the House of Commons of the United Kingdom. Claude Choules, the oldest living British born male and the last combat veteran of...
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    (2009), the autobiography of Claude Choules, the last combat veteran of World War I. At the time of publication Choules was 108, making him the world’s...
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  • Australian digger from the World War I period. However, the English-born Claude Choules, a World War I veteran who served for Britain, lived in Western Australia...
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    Cheshire, in the mid-1950s, along with equipment from Royal Sovereign. Claude Choules, the last living British First World War veteran, served aboard Revenge...
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    Corporation, HMAS Choules commissioned in honour of veteran Flash Traffic: Purchase of Largs Bay, in The Navy Kerr, Julian (6 July 2012). "Choules faces six-month...
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    military witness to the scuttling of the fleet was Claude Choules, who died on 5 May 2011 aged 110. Choules was the last known living combat veteran of the...
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  • German veteran Charles Kuentz. Those interviewed were: Harry Patch, Claude Choules, Bill Stone, Alfred Anderson, Sandy Young, Alfred Finnigan, Arthur Halestrap...
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  • academic and politician, 13th President of Nigeria (b. 1951) 2011 – Claude Choules, English-Australian soldier (b. 1901) 2011 – Yosef Merimovich, Israeli...
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    Florence Green and British Australian citizen Claude Choules, both of whom served in the British Armed Forces. Choules died on May 5, 2011; Green died on February...
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    forces and one of the last two surviving seamen worldwide, along with Claude Choules. They were also the last two to have also served in the Second World...
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  • briefly the oldest man in the United Kingdom, dies at the age of 111. Claude Choules, a 108-year-old former Royal Navy serviceman who was born in Worcestershire...
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    Category:People from Pershore Natives Hugh Bennett (1862–1943), cricketer. Claude Choules (1901–2011), was the world's last living veteran of both world wars...
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    of the medal rim without the hitherto used claw and pin attachment. Claude Choules, the last surviving Royal Navy combat veteran of World War I. Bill Stone...
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    Groves Wright Anderson Albert Borella George Brain Frank Bladin Claude Champion Claude Choules Daniel Clyne Irene Crespin George Currie Roden Cutler Phillip...
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  • 1962) 1900 – Edna Best, British stage and film actress (d. 1974) 1901 – Claude Choules, English-Australian soldier (d. 2011) 1902 – Ruby Dandridge, African-American...
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  • Vittorio Veneto, was, together with Fernand Goux of France and seaman Claude Choules of England and later Australia, one of the last three soldiers to see...
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  • murders in 2017 after numerous retrials. 25 July – 108-year-old Perth man Claude Choules, who moved to Australia from Britain in 1926, becomes his birth nation's...
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  • Australia. Australian Honours System Australian Honours Order of Wearing Claude Choules "Australian Defence Medal". It's an Honour. Australian Government. Archived...
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    trenches in the war, died on 25 July 2009 aged 111. Their deaths left Claude Choules, who served in the Royal Navy during the war and who lived in Australia...
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  • officer's mess steward in the Royal Air Force; the Women's Royal Air Force. Claude Choules (1901–2011) – British Empire. Last combat veteran. Served in the Royal...
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  • recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry and Peace (d. 1994) March 3 – Claude Choules, British World War I veteran, last surviving combat veteran from any...
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  • Force member, last surviving World War I veteran (died 2012) 3 March – Claude Choules, last surviving World War I combat veteran from England (died 2011)...
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  • television presenter 23 April – Dutch Tilders, 69, musician 5 May – Claude Choules, 110, last surviving combat World War I veteran 6 May – Barry Connolly...
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