Claude Stanley Choules died today at a nursing hom... ...110. Choules was the last known combat veteran of World War I. World War I was raging when Choules began training with the... ...e main battle fleet of the German Navy during the war . "There was no sign of fight le...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/05/r-i-p-claude-choules/Frank W. Buckles celebrated his 110th birthday on... ...kles was one of 4,734,992 Americans who served in World War I. With his death, there are no more surviving US... ..., there are no more surviving US veterans of that war . Buckles, who served as a U.S. Army ambulance dr... ...in Europe during what becam...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/02/28/rip-frank-buckles/Today is the holiday we call Veterans Day in t... ...nce Armistice Day, a day commemorating the end of World War I. How much do you know about the holiday and its...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/11/11/armistice-day-quiz/In 1919, after the close of World War I, Germany was assessed 226 billion marks in repa... ...off the crippling debt that was the price for one world war and laid the foundations for another.[...] "On... ..."On Sunday the last bill is due and the First World War finally, fi...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/09/28/germany-makes-final-reparations-payment-for-world-war-i/Maité Roël of Bovekerke, Belgium is the youngest... ...erke, Belgium is the youngest victim of the first World War . As a disabled war victim, she carries a veteran's card that entitle... ...ing in her nose – not the usual face of a First World War victim. "It was July 6th...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/11/20/26-year-old-world-war-i-victim/"The War to End All Wars " ended 91 years ago on the 11th Hour of the... ...as Veteran's Day. For many, especially Americans, World War I has been practically forgotten as it is oversha... ...ation of Iraq was created in the aftermath of the *strong class="matc...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/11/11/remembering-the-great-war/Photo: pyza* [Flickr]This week's Neatorama and Hob... ...? Oh, by the way, that phrase is a variation of a World War I propaganda slogan "They shall not pass&quo... ...he Rings, was himself a soldier who fought during World War I.Be sure to check out Adam's blog for inspiratio...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/06/23/caption-monkey-61-you-shall-not-pass/The Independent newspaper in the UK has released s... ...wly discovered portraits of British soldiers from World War I. Hidden in a French barn for ninety years,... ...dentifying the soldiers:A treasure trove of First World War photographs was discovered recently in France. Pu...
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