Thanks ----- Original Message ----- From: "John Wilson" <hugo@actrix.gen.nz> To: <greatwar@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, April 05, 2007 9:38 AM Subject: Re: [GREATWAR] Surviving WWI Veterans | Hi All: | | Here is a Wikipedia list of surviving WWI veterans from several | countries, verified and (seperately) unverified. Note that Canada has | two, and the last one to die is promised a State funeral. | | http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surviving_veterans_of_World_War_I | | Yours, John Wilson | | > 1. Fw: VA Searching for Last World War I Vets (Delilah) | > 2. Last Navy WW1 Veteran Dies (Delilah) | > 3. living WW1 Veterans (Delilah) | | > Subject: VA Searching for Last World War I Vets | > | > Recent VA News Releases | > | > To view and download VA news release, please visit the following | > Internet address: | > http://www.va.gov/opa/pressrel | > | > VA Searching for Last Doughboys of World War I | > Only Four Believed Still Alive | > WASHINGTON (April 4, 2007) -- With the number of known living American | > veterans of World War I now standing at four, the Department of Veterans | > Affairs (VA) is seeking public assistance in determining whether others | > are still alive. | > | > "These veterans have earned the gratitude and respect of the nation," | > said Secretary of Veterans Affairs Jim Nicholson. "We are coming to the | > end of a generation that helped bring the United States to the center of | > the international arena." | > | > Nicholson noted that VA usually knows about the identity and location of | > veterans only after they come to the Department for benefits. None of | > the four known surviving World War I veterans has been on the VA | > benefits rolls. | > | > The Secretary asks members of the general public who know of a surviving | > World War I veteran to contact VA. To qualify as a World War I veteran, | > someone must have been on active duty between April 6, 1917 and Nov. 11, | > 1918. VA is also looking for surviving Americans who served in the | > armed forces of allied nations. | > | > Information about survivors can be e-mailed to ww1@va.gov; faxed to | > 202-273-6702, or mailed to the Office of Public Affairs, Department of | > Veterans Affairs (80), | > 810 Vermont Ave., NW, Washington, DC 20420. | > | > About 4.7 million men and women served in the U.S. armed forces during | > World War I. About 53,000 died in combat, with another 204,000 wounded. | > | > The four known surviving World War I veterans are John Babcock, 102, | > from Puget Sound, Wash.; Frank Buckles, 106, Charles Town, W.Va.; | > Russell Coffey, 108, North Baltimore, Ohio; and Harry Landis, 107, Sun | > City Center, Fla. | > | > Babcock is an American who served in the Canadian Army. The other three | > survivors were in the U.S. Army. | > | > | > Article published Apr 2, 2007 | > Last known WW?I Navy veteran dies at age 105 | > | > Charlotte Hall, Md. | Lloyd Brown, the last known surviving World War I | Navy | > veteran, has died. He was 105. | > Brown died Thursday at the Charlotte Hall Veterans Home in St. Mary's | > County, Md., according to family and the U.S. Naval District in | Washington. | > His death comes days after the death of the last known surviving American | > female World War I veteran, Charlotte L. Winters, 109. | > The deaths leave three known survivors who served in the Army, and a | fourth | > who lives in Washington state but served in the Canadian army, according | to | > the Department of Veterans Affairs. | > Brown was born Oct. 7, 1901, in Lutie, Mo., a small farming town in the | > Ozarks. His family later moved to Chadwick, Mo. In 1918, 16-year-old Brown | > lied about his age to join the Navy and was soon on the gun crew on the | > battleship USS New Hampshire. | > "All the young men were going in the service. They were making the | > headlines, the boys that enlisted," Brown told The (Baltimore) Sun in a | 2005 | > interview. "And all the girls liked someone in uniform." | > Brown finished his tour of duty in 1919, took a break for a couple of | years, | > then re-enlisted. He learned to play the cello at a musicians school in | > Norfolk, Va., and was assigned to an admiral's 10-piece chamber orchestra | > aboard the USS Seattle. | > When Brown ended his military career in 1925, he joined the Washington | Fire | > Department's Engine Company 16, which served the White House and | embassies. | > He had married twice, and had a son and daughter from one marriage and two | > daughters from the other. | > Even after reaching 100, Brown remained independent, living alone in his | > Charlotte Hall bungalow and driving a golf cart around his neighborhood | > | > If there are any living WWI Veterans or anyone knows of any, must of been | on | > active duty between April 6, 1917 and Nov 11, 1918, please send me the | info | > and I will send to the VA. | > | > Also looking for surviving Americans who served in the armed forces of | > allied nations, I would imagine this also is WW1. | > | > You can e-mail me the info or if you prefer to snail mail it, write me | > off-list for the address. | > delilah evans | > | | | ------------------------------- | To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to GREATWAR-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message |