# Oldest WWI vet celebrates 109th **URL:** \ **Category:** The East Pacific Archive\ **Tags:** social-archive\ **Created:** [February 3, 2010, 7:40pm UTC](https://forum.theeastpacific.com/t/oldest-wwi-vet-celebrates-109th/2306 "2010-02-03T19:40:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Todd\_McCloud](https://forum.theeastpacific.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Todd\_McCloud](https://forum.theeastpacific.com/u/Todd_McCloud)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2010, 7:40pm UTC](https://forum.theeastpacific.com/t/oldest-wwi-vet-celebrates-109th/2306/1 "2010-02-03T19:40:55Z")
[http://www.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/02/01/last.world.war.one.vet/index.html?hpt=C2](http://www.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/02/01/last.world.war.one.vet/index.html?hpt=C2) A pretty cool story. Means he was born in… 1901. It’s always neat to try and determine how much life must’ve changed for him in those 109 years, lol. But still, quite an accomplishment. ---
**Author:** ![Lazlowia](https://forum.theeastpacific.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/l/9fc348/32.png) [@Lazlowia](https://forum.theeastpacific.com/u/Lazlowia)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2010, 9:36am UTC](https://forum.theeastpacific.com/t/oldest-wwi-vet-celebrates-109th/2306/2 "2010-02-04T09:36:49Z")
Interesting. The last hungarian WWI veteran died in 2008. > **[Franz Künstler](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_K%C3%BCnstler)** > > Franz Künstler (Hungarian: Künstler Ferenc, 24 July 1900 – 27 May 2008) was, at age 107, the last known surviving veteran of the First World War who fought for the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Following the death of 110-year-old Ottoman veteran Yakup Satar on 2 April 2008, he was also the last Central Powers veteran of any nationality. He was born in Sósd, in the Kingdom of Hungary, now Măureni, Romania. > A Banat Swabian, Künstler enlisted in the Austro-Hungarian Army at Szeged in February 1918 in a ... ---
**Author:** ![Bai\_Lung](https://forum.theeastpacific.com/user_avatar/forum.theeastpacific.com/bai_lung/32/12754_2.png) [@Bai\_Lung](https://forum.theeastpacific.com/u/Bai_Lung)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2010, 1:54pm UTC](https://forum.theeastpacific.com/t/oldest-wwi-vet-celebrates-109th/2306/3 "2010-02-04T13:54:32Z")
Conversely, the last UK WW1 vet died last year. ---
**Author:** ![Todd\_McCloud](https://forum.theeastpacific.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Todd\_McCloud](https://forum.theeastpacific.com/u/Todd_McCloud)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2010, 9:07pm UTC](https://forum.theeastpacific.com/t/oldest-wwi-vet-celebrates-109th/2306/4 "2010-02-04T21:07:28Z")
_— Begin quote from \_\_\_\__ Conversely, the last UK WW1 vet died last year. _— End quote_ Not according to this article in Wikipedia: > **[List of last surviving World War I veterans](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last_surviving_World_War_I_veteran_by_country)** > > This is a list of the last known surviving veterans of the First World War (28 July 1914 – 11 November 1918) who lived to 1999 or later, along with the last known veterans for countries that participated in the war. Veterans are defined as people who were members of the armed forces of the combatant nations during the conflict, although some states use other definitions. > Florence Green, a British citizen who served in the Allied armed forces as a Royal Air Force (WRAF) service member, is genera... ---
**Author:** ![Bai\_Lung](https://forum.theeastpacific.com/user_avatar/forum.theeastpacific.com/bai_lung/32/12754_2.png) [@Bai\_Lung](https://forum.theeastpacific.com/u/Bai_Lung)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2010, 5:51pm UTC](https://forum.theeastpacific.com/t/oldest-wwi-vet-celebrates-109th/2306/5 "2010-02-07T17:51:04Z")
Then I must be confused with Harry Patch, who was touted as the last Tommy. The guy who actually fought in the trenches. ---
**Author:** ![Emjay](https://forum.theeastpacific.com/user_avatar/forum.theeastpacific.com/emjay/32/10142_2.png) [@Emjay](https://forum.theeastpacific.com/u/Emjay)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2023, 3:58am UTC](https://forum.theeastpacific.com/t/oldest-wwi-vet-celebrates-109th/2306/6 "2023-08-12T03:58:32Z")