Last World War I Veteran Dies at 110
By STEPHEN BELL
PERTH—"Claude Stanley Choules, the last known combat veteran of the First World War, died Thursday in Perth, Western Australia. . . . The British-born Mr. Choules, who spent more than 40 years in the Royal Navy in England and Australia, was 110. Mr. Choules lied about his age to join the navy at 14 in 1915. He followed two older brothers who served in the Gallipoli campaign, where a force of Allied soldiers—many from Australia—attempted to seize control of the Dardanelles strait from Turkish troops of the Ottoman Empire. . . .Mr. Choules witnessed the surrender of the German Imperial Navy, and later the scuttling of the German fleet of battleships at Scapa Flow off the coast of Scotland at the end of the war."
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