Thread: Last WWI combat veteran dies
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5th May 2011, 12:02 PM #1
Last WWI combat veteran dies
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-13289607
The inevitable day has come. Now there are no known combat veterans of the First World War left alive. Before too long there will be no-one who saw any kind of active service in that period left, and there will be no more first hand tales from those dark days.
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5th May 2011, 12:26 PM #2
This is sad news and a turning point in modern history, but having read his autobiography, I can confidently say that Claude lived an amazing life and was a thoroughly decent man. He once said that if he had his life to live over agin, he wouldn't change a thing. He also said quite recently the the Australian welfare system should be used to help young people who've either gone astray or have fallen on hard times, rather than keeping ancient people like him alive in nursing homes. That, coupled with the fact that he had become blind and almost completely deaf, would suggest that he'd been ready to go for some time.
RIP Claude - through fate alone you really were The Last of The Last.
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5th May 2011, 12:46 PM #3
It's rather sobering news, but what a fantastic life he had.
Fortunately for us and for history, WW1 is so well documented in the voices of the men who fought it for their generation and the generations that followed, that it will never be forgotten, even if there is no-one now alive who was there.
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5th May 2011, 9:43 PM #4
It's terribly sad, perhaps this would be a good time for another memorial to remember those that fought in the war.
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5th May 2011, 9:45 PM #5
Lest we forget.
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6th May 2011, 11:26 AM #6
We can only hope that their memory will live on.
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7th May 2011, 10:54 AM #7
Ironically we have just started Blackadder 4. Odd to think at the time it came out how veterans commented on it, and now they're gone.
Remember, just because Davros is dead doesn't mean the Dalek menace has been contained ......
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