Last knowne WWI vet gone.

[icepac]

Thanks golfer......it was unbelievably annoying to post until your suggestion.

[Golfer]

Sure thing.  Been there, done that. 

[moochin]

If I should die, think only this of me:
That there's some corner of a foreign field
That is for ever England. There shall be
In that rich earth a richer dust concealed;
A dust whom England bore, shaped, made aware,
Gave, once, her flowers to love, her ways to roam,
A body of England's, breathing English air,
Washed by the rivers, blest by suns of home.

And think, this heart, all evil shed away,
A pulse in the eternal mind, no less
Gives somewhere back the thoughts by England given;
Her sights and sounds; dreams happy as her day;
And laughter, learnt of friends; and gentleness,
In hearts at peace, under an English heaven.


Go in peace, Claude Choules, and join your brothers. 
You served your country and won the war. 
England thanks you.
France thanks you.
America thanks you.
Belgium thanks you.
The world thanks you.


 

Fitting tribute. Heard his last interview on the radio in the car today, humble, great man 

[Penguin]

So many stories lost, what that man went through must have been awful.   Rest in peace, sir, you must have been one dude.

-Penguin

PS- I hope I live as long as he did!