Claude Stanley Choules

Claude Stanley Choules (3 March 1901 – 5 May 2011) was the last living First World War veteran in the world, and was the last living military witness to the scuttling of the German fleet in Scapa Flow. He was also the last living veteran to have served in both world wars, and the last seaman from the First World War. At the time of his death, he was also the third oldest verified military veteran in the world and the oldest known living man in Australia. He was the 7th-oldest living man in the world. Choules became the oldest man born in the United Kingdom following the death of Stanley Lucas on 21 June 2010. Choules died in Perth, Western Australia, at the age of 110.He survived the United States's oldest World War I veteran, Frank Buckles by 67 days.