# WWI veterans **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [November 16, 2005, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wwi-veterans/331257 "2005-11-16T03:40:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![CWarner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/848f3c/32.png) [@CWarner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CWarner)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2005, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wwi-veterans/331257/1 "2005-11-16T03:40:54Z")
Are there any WWI veterans still alive? According to [faqfarm.com](http://faqfarm.com) the last one died in September, but I hadn’t heard this before and it just seems like it should’ve been mentioned somewhere. Or maybe it was and I failed to notice? ---
**Author:** ![Governor\_Quinn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/d26b3c/32.png) [@Governor\_Quinn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Governor_Quinn)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2005, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wwi-veterans/331257/2 "2005-11-16T03:55:14Z")
> [@CWarner](#): > > Are there any WWI veterans still alive? [Here’s a list of surviving WWI veterans](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surviving_Veterans_of_the_First_World_War) ---
**Author:** ![Hirundo82](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/919ad9/32.png) [@Hirundo82](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hirundo82)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2005, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wwi-veterans/331257/3 "2005-11-16T03:56:30Z")
Wikipedia maintains a list of [living WWI veterans](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veterans_of_the_First_World_War_who_died_in_2005). ---
**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2005, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wwi-veterans/331257/4 "2005-11-16T03:58:43Z")
Australia’s last serving WWI vet died recently. I believe there is one surviving veteran who was in the services but never made it overseas. ---
**Author:** ![Foaming\_Cleanser](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f05b48/32.png) [@Foaming\_Cleanser](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Foaming_Cleanser)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2005, 6:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wwi-veterans/331257/5 "2005-11-16T06:54:20Z")
Some announcer on the CBC during the Remembrance Day ceremony in Ottawa said there are five, officially, in Canada, though there may be more that the government does not know about. The five are official because they receive war pensions. I saw a BBC news clip last year, probably at about this time, of a British tank veteran next to a First World War tank. As well, newspapers ran a colour picture of him next to the thing, so the pic might be on the net somewhere. He would have been 106 last year if he had joined the army in 1914 at age 16. Imagine a life spanning the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries — and knowing better than anyone that the war to end all wars was anything but. ---
**Author:** ![Rayne\_Man](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/df705f/32.png) [@Rayne\_Man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rayne_Man)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2005, 7:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wwi-veterans/331257/6 "2005-11-16T07:39:31Z")
Over the last two weeks the BBC have been showing a programme called _The Last Tommy_. When they started filming the programme in 2003 there were just over 20 survivors, now it it is down to four. Details [Here](http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/war/wwone/last_tommy_gallery.shtml) ---
**Author:** ![Walloon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/fbc32d/32.png) [@Walloon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walloon)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2005, 8:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wwi-veterans/331257/7 "2005-11-16T08:17:37Z")
The U.S. Census Bureau estimates that there are between 30 and 50 living American veterans of World War I.