caption serviceyears laterwork branch death_date death_place birth_place allegiance placeofburial_label battles birth_date placeofburial rank article_title name
gertrude noone at 110 1943 -- 1949 administrative assistant united states army 10 september 2009 milford , connecticut ansonia , connecticut united states place of burial world war ii 30 december 1898 mount st. peter 's cemetery , milford , connecticut sergeant first class gertrude noone
 gertrude noone
gertrude noone

gertrude evelyn noone -lrb- december 30 , 1898 -- september 10 , 2009 -rrb- was an american supercentenarian and also the oldest american military veteran until she died in september 2009 .
at death , she was the oldest military veteran in the world , having served in world war ii as a clerk in fort myer , an army base in virginia .
gertrude noone was born in ansonia , connecticut on december 30 , 1898 .
she was the ninth of her family 's ten children .
noone , who never married , worked as an insurance policy clerk for the travelers .
she left her job to enlist in 1943 in the women 's army corps during world war ii when she was 44 years old .
while enlisted in the corps , noone became the chief clerk of the dispensary at fort myer , near washington d.c. .
she rose within the corps to the rank of sergeant first class by the time she left the united states army in 1949 .
she returned to the private sector , where she worked as an administrative assistant at a psychiatric hospital in stamford , connecticut , until her retirement in 1962 .
the honorary title of oldest known living military veteran passed to gertrude noone on july 25 , 2009 , following the death of british world war i veteran harry patch .
gertrude noone died at the carriage green assisted living facility in milford , connecticut , on september 10 , 2009 , at the age of 110 .
she was buried with full military honors at mount st. peter 's cemetery in derby , connecticut .
