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First World War. 1914 – 1918. The nations of Europe were at war soon after the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary. More than 650,000 Canadians and Newfoundlanders served in this war and more than 66,000 of them gave their lives and more than 172,000 were wounded.
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This database combines references to various First World War personnel records. Digitization of the Canadian Expeditionary Force personnel files is complete. The database also includes digitized files for many individuals who served in the Royal Newfoundland Regiment and Newfoundland Forestry Corps (courtesy of the Rooms Provincial Archives).
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.
Country [c]VeteranDeath DateAgeSenekerim Arakelian [4]9 September 200098 years3 June 2009110 yearsAugust Bischof [6]4 March 2006105 years16 September 2004105 yearsThe First World War began on August 4, 1914, with the Triple Entente (United Kingdom, France and Russia) and other nations (e.g., Canada and Australia) against the Triple Alliance (Germany, Austria-Hungary and Italy).
Veterans want Canadians to understand the price of freedom. They are passing the torch to the people of Canada, so the memory of their sacrifices will continue, and the values they fought for will live on in all of us.
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In the years following World War I, these diaries were often used by veterans (or their family members) as the basis for memoirs. These retrospective accounts place the events of the war in the context of what came next, and answer the question of what remains memorable many decades later.
