Post by aefstraggler on May 5, 2011 12:20:06 GMT -8
SYDNEY (AP) — Claude Stanley Choules, the last known combat veteran of World War I,
died on Thursday in a nursing home in Western Australia. He was 110.
His death was confirmed by his 84-year-old daughter, Daphne Edinger.
Mr. Choules was defiant of the tolls of time, a centenarian who swam in the sea, twirled
across dance floors and published his first book at 108. He also became a pacifist, refusing
to march in parades commemorating wars like the one that made him famous.
Mr. Choules (rhymes with jewels) was born March 3, 1901, in the small British town of
Pershore, Worcestershire, one of seven children.
died on Thursday in a nursing home in Western Australia. He was 110.
His death was confirmed by his 84-year-old daughter, Daphne Edinger.
Mr. Choules was defiant of the tolls of time, a centenarian who swam in the sea, twirled
across dance floors and published his first book at 108. He also became a pacifist, refusing
to march in parades commemorating wars like the one that made him famous.
Mr. Choules (rhymes with jewels) was born March 3, 1901, in the small British town of
Pershore, Worcestershire, one of seven children.
