Are There Any Ww1 Vets Still Alive. Yielding to the inalterable process of aging, the men and women who fought and won the great conflict are now in their late 80s and 90s. More than one million canadians and newfoundlanders served in the military during the campaign — more than 45,000 gave their lives and another 55,000 were wounded.
Hughes, netherwood (ned) 4 april 2009 (108) The last combat veteran was claude choules who served in the british royal navy (and later the royal australian navy) and died 5 may 2011, aged 110. Frank buckles, america’s last surviving world war i veteran, has died at age 110.
