List of last World War I veterans by country - wikipedia List of last World War I veterans by country This is a list of the last World War I veterans to die by country. The last living veteran of World War I ( 28 July 1914 -- 11 November 1918 ) was Florence Green, a British citizen who served in the Allied armed forces, and who died 4 February 2012, aged 110. 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. The last veteran who served in the trenches was Harry Patch ( British Army ) who died on 25 July 2009, aged 111. The last Central Powers veteran, Franz Künstler of Austria - Hungary, died on 27 May 2008 at the age of 107. The total number of participating personnel is estimated by the Encyclopædia Britannica at 65,038,810. There were approximately 9,750,103 military deaths during the conflict. Veterans, for this purpose, are defined as people who were members of the armed forces of one of the combatant nations up to and including the date of the Armistice. This policy may vary from the policy in actual use in some countries. Contents 1 List 2 See also 3 References 3.1 Notes List Country Name Death date Age Armenia Senekerim Arakelian 000000002000 - 09 - 09 - 0000 9 September 2000 098 ! 98 years Austrian Empire August Bischof 000000002006 - 03 - 04 - 0000 4 March 2006 105 years Australia John Campbell Ross 000000002009 - 06 - 03 - 0000 3 June 2009 110 years Belgium Cyriel Barbary 000000002004 - 09 - 16 - 0000 16 September 2004 105 years Brazil Waldemar Levy Cardoso 000000002009 - 05 - 13 - 0000 13 May 2009 108 years Bulgaria Unknown Unknown Unknown Canada John Babcock 000000002010 - 02 - 18 - 0000 18 February 2010 109 years China Zhu Guisheng 000000002002 - 03 - 05 - 0000 5 March 2002 106 years Czechoslovakian Legions Alois Vocásek 000000002003 - 08 - 09 - 0000 9 August 2003 107 years France Pierre Picault 000000002008 - 11 - 20 - 0000 20 November 2008 109 years German Empire Erich Kästner 000000002008 - 01 - 01 - 0000 1 January 2008 107 years Greece Unknown Unknown Unknown The Hejaz Unknown Unknown Unknown Hungarian Kingdom Franz Künstler 000000002008 - 05 - 27 - 0000 27 May 2008 107 years Indian Empire Robert Francis Ruttledge 000000002002 - 01 - 12 - 0000 12 January 2002 103 years Italy Delfino Borroni 000000002008 - 10 - 26 - 0000 26 October 2008 110 years Japan Matsuda Chiaki 000000001995 - 11 - 06 - 0000 6 November 1995 099 ! 99 years Montenegro Danilo Dajković 000000001993 - 09 - 14 - 0000 14 September 1993 098 ! 98 years Newfoundland Wallace Pike 000000001999 - 04 - 11 - 0000 11 April 1999 099 ! 99 years New Zealand Bright Williams 000000002003 - 02 - 13 - 0000 13 February 2003 105 years Ottoman Empire Yakup Satar 000000002008 - 04 - 02 - 0000 2 April 2008 110 years Poland Stanisław Wycech 000000002008 - 01 - 12 - 0000 12 January 2008 105 years Portugal José Ladeira 000000002003 - 05 - 05 - 0000 5 May 2003 107 years Romania Gheorghe Pănculescu 000000002007 - 01 - 09 - 0000 9 January 2007 103 years Russian Empire Mikhail Krichevsky 000000002008 - 12 - 26 - 0000 26 December 2008 111 years Serbia Aleksa Radovanović 000000002004 - 06 - 22 - 0000 22 June 2004 103 years Siam Yod Sangrungruang 000000002003 - 10 - 09 - 0000 9 October 2003 106 years South Africa Norman Kark 000000002000 - 03 - 30 - 0000 30 March 2000 102 years United Kingdom Florence Green 000000002012 - 02 - 04 - 0000 4 February 2012 110 years United States Frank Buckles 000000002011 - 02 - 27 - 0000 27 February 2011 110 years See also List of last surviving veterans of military insurgencies and wars References ^ Jump up to : Accorded belligerent status at the Paris Peace Conference in 1919. ^ Jump up to : Austria and Hungary were component, technically sovereign, nations within the Austro - Hungarian Empire. ^ Jump up to : A self - governing Dominion under the British Empire. Jump up ^ At the time of his death in 2001 at the age of 102, Paul Ooghe was widely believed to be the last surviving Belgian veteran of the conflict. Barbary, who had served in the Belgian army in the final months of the war and emigrated to the United States, was only subsequently recognised. Jump up ^ Following the legal definition of a war veteran as a person having served for six months during the war years ( for which Picault did not qualify ), the French government officially recognized Lazare Ponticelli, who died on 12 March 2008, as the last poilu. Notes Jump up ^ Blackmore, David ( 7 February 2012 ). `` Norfolk First World War Veteran Dies ''. EDP24. Retrieved 7 February 2012. Jump up ^ Carman, Gerry ( 6 May 2011 ). `` Last man who served in two world wars dies, 110 ''. The Age. Retrieved 6 May 2011. Jump up ^ Juliette Funes ( 2013 - 04 - 11 ). `` Montebello hosts exhibit commemorating 98th anniversary of Armenian Genocide ''. San Gabriel Valley Tribune. Retrieved 2015 - 07 - 03. Jump up ^ `` Autriche '' ( in French ). Ders Des Ders. Retrieved 2010 - 11 - 20. Jump up ^ `` Australia 's oldest man and Digger Jack Ross dies aged 110 ''. The Age. Retrieved 2011 - 02 - 15. Jump up ^ De Vuyst, Pierre ( 10 September 2001 ). `` Le dernier poilu s'est éteint ''. La Dernière Heure. Retrieved 2 May 2016. Jump up ^ `` Adieu au dernier poilu belge ''. La Dernière Heure. 19 September 2004. Retrieved 22 September 2016. Jump up ^ Goldstein, Richard ( 2010 - 02 - 24 ). ``... John Babcock, Last Canadian World War I Veteran, Dies at 109 ''. The New York Times. Retrieved 2010 - 11 - 20. Jump up ^ O'Neill, Mark ( March 3, 2014 ). The Chinese Labour Corps. UK : Penguin Books. access - date = requires url = ( help ) Jump up ^ Velinger, Jan ( 14 August 2003 ). `` Oldest Czech legionnaire was never able to clear tarnished reputation ''. Radio Praha. Retrieved 22 September 2016. Jump up ^ `` france '' ( in French ). Ders Des Ders. Retrieved 2010 - 11 - 20. Jump up ^ `` Germany 's ' last ' WWI veteran dies ''. BBC. January 2008. Retrieved 2010 - 11 - 20. Jump up ^ `` Franz Künstler, Veteran of 2 Wars, Dies at 107 ''. The New York Times. 2008 - 05 - 30. Retrieved 2010 - 11 - 21. Jump up ^ `` Outstanding ornithologist and a founder of Irish Wildbird Conservancy '', The Irish Times, 19 January 2002 access - date = requires url = ( help ) Jump up ^ `` Delfino Borroni : Italy 's last surviving veteran of the First World War ''. The Times. 2008 - 10 - 30. Retrieved 2010 - 11 - 21. Jump up ^ Петнаестогодишњица упокојења Митрополита црногорско - приморског Г. Данила ( 1895 - 1993 ) ( in Serbian ). Serbian Orthodox Church. 12 September 2008. Retrieved 6 July 2013. Jump up ^ `` Last of Newfoundland 's WW1 vets passes away ''. CBC. 19 April 1999. Retrieved 4 November 2010. Jump up ^ `` The last Great War veterans ''. RNZRSA. February 2003. Archived from the original on 22 May 2010. Retrieved 4 November 2010. Jump up ^ `` Yakup Satar ''. The Times. 3 April 2008. Retrieved 21 November 2010. Jump up ^ `` Poland 's WWI veteran Stanislaw passes away ''. Oman Tribune. Archived from the original on 15 July 2011. Retrieved 4 November 2010. Jump up ^ Silva, Carlos ( 2005 - 09 - 07 ). `` 1643 portugueses mortos na grande guerra em França '' ( in Portuguese ). Fórum de Genealogia. Retrieved 2010 - 11 - 21. Filipe Prista Lucas, a GRG correspondent says ( translated from Portuguese ) `` According to the information I hold, the last Portuguese veteran of World War I died in 2003. His name was Jose Luis Ladeira, and he died on May 5, 2003, in Vale do Açor, Miranda do Corvo, 107 years old. '' Jump up ^ `` ROUMANIE '' ( in French ). Ders Des Ders. Retrieved 2010 - 11 - 21. Jump up ^ Последний в мире ветеран Первой мировой живет в Донецке ( фото ) ( in Russian ). Интернет - газета Донбасса. 2008 - 02 - 22. Retrieved 2010 - 11 - 21. Jump up ^ `` Oldest known Ukrainian Jew dies at 111 ''. JTA. 2009 - 01 - 05. Retrieved 2010 - 11 - 04. Jump up ^ Racić, M. ( 2004 - 06 - 27 ). `` ODLAZAK POSLEDNJEG SRPSKOG SOLUNCA '' ( in Serbian ). Kurir. Retrieved 2010 - 11 - 21. Jump up ^ `` Last WW1 veteran dies ''. Taipei Times. 2003 - 10 - 11. Retrieved 2010 - 11 - 04. Jump up ^ Printing World ( 2000 - 04 - 17 ). `` Longest serving Stationer dies at the wonderful age of 102 ''. Highbeam Business. Retrieved 2010 - 11 - 04. Jump up ^ Ashley, Mike ( 2010 - 11 - 11 ). `` Collecting Crime : London Mystery Magazine - Part Two ''. Crime Time. Archived from the original on 2011 - 07 - 16. Retrieved 2010 - 11 - 21. Jump up ^ `` Last surviving veteran of First World War dies aged 110 ''. The Telegraph. Retrieved 2012 - 02 - 07. Jump up ^ Courson, Paul ( 2011 - 02 - 28 ). `` Last living U.S. World War I veteran dies ''. CNN. Retrieved 2011 - 02 - 28. 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reigning monarchs See also Ageing Biodemography of human longevity Earliest known life forms FOXO3 longevity gene Gerontology Immortality in fiction Life extension - related topics Senescence World War I Home fronts Theatres European Balkans Western Front Eastern Front Italian Front Middle Eastern Gallipoli Sinai and Palestine Caucasus Persia Mesopotamia South Arabia African South West East Kamerun Togoland North Asian and Pacific Tsingtao German New Guinea and Samoa At sea North Atlantic U-boat campaign Mediterranean North Sea Baltic Indian, Pacific and South Atlantic Oceans Papeete Madras Penang Cocos Coronel Falkland Islands Más a Tierra Principal participants ( people ) Entente powers Belgium Brazil China France French Empire Greece Italy Japan Montenegro Portuguese Empire Romania Russia Russian Empire Russian Republic Serbia United Kingdom British Empire United States Central Powers Germany Austria - Hungary Ottoman Empire Bulgaria Timeline Pre-War conflicts Scramble for Africa ( 1880 -- 1914 ) Russo - Japanese War ( 1905 ) First Moroccan ( Tangier ) Crisis ( 1905 -- 06 ) Agadir Crisis ( 1911 ) Italo - Turkish War ( 1911 -- 12 ) French conquest of Morocco ( 1911 -- 12 ) First Balkan War ( 1912 -- 13 ) Second Balkan War ( 1913 ) Prelude Origins Sarajevo assassination Anti-Serb riots in Sarajevo July Crisis Autumn 1914 Battle of the Frontiers Battle of Cer First Battle of the Marne Siege of Tsingtao Battle of Tannenberg Battle of Galicia Battle of the Masurian Lakes Battle of Kolubara Battle of Sarikamish Race to the Sea First Battle of Ypres 1915 Second Battle of the Masurian Lakes Second Battle of Ypres Battle of Gallipoli Second Battle of Artois Battles of the Isonzo Gorlice -- Tarnów Offensive Great Retreat Second Battle of Champagne Kosovo Offensive Siege of Kut Battle of Loos 1916 Erzurum Offensive Battle of Verdun Lake Naroch Offensive Battle of Asiago Battle of Jutland Battle of the Somme first day Brusilov Offensive Baranovichi Offensive Battle of Romani Monastir Offensive Battle of Transylvania 1917 Capture of Baghdad First Battle of Gaza Zimmermann Telegram Second Battle of Arras Second Battle of the Aisne Kerensky Offensive Third Battle of Ypres ( Passchendaele ) Battle of Mărășești Battle of Caporetto Southern Palestine Offensive Battle of Cambrai Armistice of Erzincan 1918 Operation Faustschlag Treaty of Brest - Litovsk Spring Offensive Battle of Goychay Battle of Aghsu Battle of Kyurdamir Second Battle of the Marne Battle of Baku Hundred Days Offensive Vardar Offensive Battle of Megiddo Third Transjordan attack Meuse - Argonne Offensive Battle of Vittorio Veneto Battle of Aleppo Armistice of Salonica Armistice of Mudros Armistice of Villa Giusti Armistice with Germany Other conflicts Mexican Revolution ( 1910 -- 20 ) Somaliland Campaign ( 1910 -- 20 ) Libyan resistance movement ( 1911 -- 43 ) Maritz Rebellion ( 1914 -- 15 ) Zaian War ( 1914 -- 21 ) Indo - German Conspiracy ( 1914 -- 19 ) Senussi Campaign ( 1915 -- 16 ) Volta - Bani War ( 1915 -- 17 ) Easter Rising ( 1916 ) Anglo - Egyptian Darfur Expedition ( 1916 ) Kaocen Revolt ( 1916 -- 17 ) Central Asian Revolt ( 1916 - 17 ) Russian Revolution ( 1917 ) Finnish Civil War ( 1918 ) Post-War conflicts Russian Civil War ( 1917 -- 21 ) Ukrainian -- Soviet War ( 1917 -- 21 ) Armenian -- Azerbaijani War ( 1918 -- 20 ) Georgian -- Armenian War ( 1918 ) German Revolution ( 1918 -- 19 ) Revolutions and interventions in Hungary ( 1918 -- 20 ) Hungarian -- Romanian War ( 1918 -- 19 ) Greater Poland Uprising ( 1918 -- 19 ) Estonian War of Independence ( 1918 -- 20 ) Latvian War of Independence ( 1918 -- 20 ) Lithuanian Wars of Independence ( 1918 -- 20 ) Third Anglo - 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Question: what year did the last ww1 veteran dies
Answer: 2012