My uncle (Dad's twin) served in WW1 but he waited to be drafted. He only had one child but they wouldn't take my dad because by then Dad had 3 or 4 children. aaamy uncle served in France and was gassed and nlost half his stomach as a result. He later became a school teacher. He died in 1976 at age 86.Emma > Date: Fri, 6 May 2011 08:36:17 -0400 > From: marilyneb@gmail.com > To: gen-newbie@rootsweb.com; Genealogy-Computers-Chat@yahoogroups.com; internet-genealogy@googlegroups.com; an-internet-family@googlegroups.com; memory-lane@rootsweb.com > Subject: [ML] Last WW1 Combatant Dies > > The end of an era, the end of our touch with a time gone by. Claude Choules > died in Australia, yesterday. > > I hope this link works: > > http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5hem97Ee2o9CXjsrbrptIovufvK0w?docId=CNG.55f0da6b0832923a420f0af08b851e4c.441 > > or > > http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/may/05/claude-choules-last-world-war-one-veteran-dies > > And, oh my, he enlisted at either 14 or 15. What would today's world think > of that. > > Marilyn > <http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5hem97Ee2o9CXjsrbrptIovufvK0w?docId=CNG.55f0da6b0832923a420f0af08b851e4c.441> > > -- > "If you don't get outside every day, even for a minute, you have not > appreciated what God has done. It makes you grateful for our surroundings, > and it starts your day differently." > > Johnny Cash > > > > > > http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~mbousman1/memory.htm > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to MEMORY-LANE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message