# Last Male WW1 Veteran Passes Away

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**Created:** [May 5, 2011, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-male-ww1-veteran-passes-away/580794 "2011-05-05T02:54:11Z")\
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**Author:** ![Diceman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/22d042/32.png) [@Diceman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diceman)\
**Post date:** [May 9, 2011, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-male-ww1-veteran-passes-away/580794/21 "2011-05-09T16:51:15Z")

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> [@Princhester](#):
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> Maybe there are still-living female participants who served in auxilliary capacities and they don’t want to get into an argument about who is or is not a “veteran”?

There’s an English woman who served as a waitress in an RAF base during WW1. Technically, she’s the last WW1 vet, but many people (including myself) don’t consider her a real war vet.

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**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\
**Post date:** [May 10, 2011, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-male-ww1-veteran-passes-away/580794/22 "2011-05-10T02:34:30Z")

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I think there’s a girl in Paris named Lulu who showed several doughboys a good time. Not sure of her status.

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**Author:** ![ataraxy22](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ataraxy22/32/307_2.png) [@ataraxy22](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ataraxy22)\
**Post date:** [May 10, 2011, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-male-ww1-veteran-passes-away/580794/23 "2011-05-10T03:18:25Z")

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I’ve been following this Wikipedia page on the subject for a while now. Not much left on it now.

> **[List of last surviving World War I veterans](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_surviving_veterans_of_World_War_I)**
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> This is a list of the last known surviving veterans of the First World War (28 July 1914 – 11 November 1918) who lived to 1999 or later, along with the last known veterans for countries that participated in the war. Veterans are defined as people who were members of the armed forces of the combatant nations during the conflict, although some states use other definitions.
> Florence Green, a British citizen who served in the Allied armed forces as a Royal Air Force (WRAF) service member, is genera...

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**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\
**Post date:** [May 10, 2011, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-male-ww1-veteran-passes-away/580794/24 "2011-05-10T04:08:46Z")

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> [@Johnny\_L.A](#):
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> \*And the band plays Waltzing Matilda  
> And the old men still answer the call  
> But year after year, their numbers get fewer  
> Someday, no one will march there at all \*

I thought of that same song and that same verse.

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