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Monday, November 28, 2005
We few, we happy few, we band of brothers

And a dwindling band of brothers it is. Clare Laking, 106, last Canadian soldier to have seen action on the Western Front has died. Great War vets still alive are now zero from New Zealand, four from Australia, four from Canada, 14 from the UK and 24 from the United States. Looking down the short remaining list, we find a Moses Hardy from Mississippi who was born in 1893!

Australia
Choles, Claude, Navy, b. 3 March 1901 (born in the UK and fought in the British army; subsequently emigrated to Australia)
Lucas, Syd, b. 21 September 1900 (Australian resident; fought for UK)
Ross, John Campbell, b. 11 March 1899 (last Australian digger)
Young, Will(iam), Royal Flying Corps, b. 4 January 1900 (same as for Choles and Lucas; went over to Australia after World War II)

Canada
Babcock, John F. (Spokane, Washington), b. 23 July 1900
Clemett, Brad Lloyd (Toronto), b. 10 December 1899
Procter, William "Duke" (Enderby, British Columbia), b. 18 August 1899
Wilson, Dwight "Percy" (Oshawa), b. 26 February 1901

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Allingham, Henry, b. 6 June 1896
Butcher, Stephen, Navy, b. 20 February 1904
Choles, Claude, Navy, b. 3 March 1901 (born in the UK and fought in the British army; subsequently emigrated to Australia)
Cummins, Kenneth, Navy, b. 6 March 1900
Lawton, Professor Harold, East Yorkshire Regiment, b. 27 July 1899
Lucas, Syd(ney), b. 21 September 1900 (Australian resident; fought for the UK)
Newcombe, Harry, Sussex Regiment, b. 5 August 1900
Pajaczkowski, Jerzy, b. 19 July 1894 (born in Austria-Hungary)
Patch, Harry, Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry, b. 17 June 1898
Rigby, Andrew, First Lancashire Fusiliers, b. 2 November 1900
Roberts, William ("Bill"), Royal Flying Corps, b. 29 September 1900
Stone, William ("Bill"), Navy, b. 23 September 1900
Swarbrick, Nicholas, Merchant Navy, b. 14 November 1898
Young, Will(iam), Royal Flying Corps, b. 4 January 1900 (same as for Choles and Lucas; went over to Australia after World War II)

United States of America
Anderson, Homer (Florida), Balloon Corps, b. 24 December 1897
Boice, Harold F., b. 8 September 1897
Brown, Lloyd (Maryland), Navy, b. 7 October 1901
Buchanan, Russell (New York), Navy, b. 24 January 1900
Buckles, Frank Woodroff (Virginia), Army, b. February 1, 1901
Bustos, Felix (Colorado), b. circa 1902
Coffey, J. Russell (Ohio), Army, b. 1 September 1898
Gardner, Harold (Pennsylvania), Army, b. 3 December 1898
Grill, Max (New York), b. 24 April 1900
Hardy, Moses (Mississippi), b. 6 January 1893
Johnson, George (California), b. 1 May 1894
Krueger, Merlyn (Washington), b. 8 April 1895
Little, David Samuel "Tex" (Wyoming), Army, b. circa 1903
Mercado del Toro, Emiliano (Puerto Rico), b. 21 August 1891
Myers, Kenneth (Texas), Navy, b. 18 April 1898
Pierro, Anthony (Massachusetts), b. 15 February 1896 (born in Italy)
Poor, Justin (Florida), Navy, b. 4 August 1899
Pusey, Ernest Charles (Florida), Navy, b. 5 May 1895
Ramsey, Howard Verne (Oregon), Army, b. 2 April 1898
Rex, Robley (Kentucky), b. 4 May 1901
Steer, Frank, Army, b. 12 January 1901
Wagner, Albert Fred "Jud" (Kansas), Marines, b. 5 September 1899
Warmington, Arthur (New Jersey), b. 18 September 1895
Winters, Charlotte (Washington), Navy, b. 10 November 1897

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