List of last surviving World War I veterans

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 generally considered to have been the last verified veteran of the war at her death on 4 February 2012, aged 110. The last combat veteran was Claude Choules, who served in the British Royal Navy (and later the Royal Australian Navy) and died 5 May 2011, aged 110. The last veteran who served in the trenches was Harry Patch (British Army), who died on 25 July 2009, aged 111. The last Central Powers veteran, Franz Künstler of Austria-Hungary, died on 27 May 2008 at the age of 107.

The total number of participating personnel is estimated by the Encyclopædia Britannica at 65,038,810. There were approximately 9,750,103 military deaths during the conflict.

Last surviving veterans of each country

Country	Veteran	Death date	Age
Armenia	Senekerim Arakelian	9 September 2000	98 years
Australia	John Campbell Ross	3 June 2009	110 years
Austrian Empire	August Bischof	4 March 2006	105 years
Belgium	Cyriel Barbary	16 September 2004	105 years
Brazil	Waldemar Levy Cardoso	13 May 2009	108 years
Canada	John Babcock	18 February 2010	109 years
China	Zhu Guisheng	5 March 2002	106 years
Czechoslovakian Legions	Alois Vocásek	9 August 2003	107 years
Denmark	Lorenz Gram	26 December 2004	105 years
France	Pierre Picault	20 November 2008	109 years
German Empire	Erich Kästner	1 January 2008	107 years
Kingdom of Hungary	Franz Künstler	27 May 2008	107 years
India	Robert Francis Ruttledge	12 January 2002	102 years
Italy	Delfino Borroni	26 October 2008	110 years
Japan	Yasuichi Sasaki	26 July 2006	108 years
Montenegro	Danilo Dajković	14 September 1993	98 years
New Zealand	Bright Williams	13 February 2003	106 years
Newfoundland	Wallace Pike	11 April 1999	99 years
Ottoman Empire	Yakup Satar	2 April 2008	110 years
Poland	Stanisław Wycech	12 January 2008	105 years
Romania	Gheorghe Pănculescu	9 January 2007	103 years
Russian Empire	Mikhail Krichevsky	26 December 2008	111 years
Serbia	Aleksa Radovanović	22 June 2004	103 years
Siam	Yod Sangrungruang	9 October 2003	106 years
South Africa	Norman Kark	30 March 2000	102 years
United Kingdom	Florence Green	4 February 2012	110 years
United States	Frank Buckles	27 February 2011	110 years

The last surviving veteran from the Colony of Jamaica was Stanley Stair and from British Guyana was Gershom Browne. Thomas Shaw (d. 2002) was the last veteran from Ireland, and Alfred Anderson (d. 2005) was the last from Scotland.