Last known veteran of WWI dies
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February 8, 2012, Wednesday
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FLORENCE Green, the world's last known veteran of World War I, has died at the age of 110, the care home where she lived said yesterday.
Briar House Care Home in King's Lynn, England, said Green died last Saturday, two weeks before her 111th birthday.
Born Florence Beatrice Patterson in London on February 19, 1901, she joined the Women's Royal Air Force in September 1918.
She worked as a waitress in the officers' mess at RAF Marham in eastern England, and was there when the war ended in November 1918.
Green remembered her wartime service with affection. "I met dozens of pilots and would go on dates," she said in 2008. "I had the opportunity to go up in a plane but was scared of flying."
"I had dozens of friends on the base. In many ways, I had the time of my life."
The war's last known combatant, Royal Navy veteran Claude Choules, died in Australia in May.
After his death, Green became the war's last known surviving service member, according to the Order of the First World War, a US-based group that tracks veterans.
Briar House Care Home in King's Lynn, England, said Green died last Saturday, two weeks before her 111th birthday.
Born Florence Beatrice Patterson in London on February 19, 1901, she joined the Women's Royal Air Force in September 1918.
She worked as a waitress in the officers' mess at RAF Marham in eastern England, and was there when the war ended in November 1918.
Green remembered her wartime service with affection. "I met dozens of pilots and would go on dates," she said in 2008. "I had the opportunity to go up in a plane but was scared of flying."
"I had dozens of friends on the base. In many ways, I had the time of my life."
The war's last known combatant, Royal Navy veteran Claude Choules, died in Australia in May.
After his death, Green became the war's last known surviving service member, according to the Order of the First World War, a US-based group that tracks veterans.
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