List of World War I veterans
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The following is a list of noteworthy people who served in World War I sorted by the country for which they served.
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[edit] Australia
- General Sir John Monash, most noted Australian General in WW I, appointed corps commander of the Australian forces in 1918
- Stanley Bruce, severely wounded in France, became Prime Minister of Australia in later life.
- Marcel Caux, last known survivor of the Battle of Pozières
- Arthur Henry Cobby, aviator, DFC DSO
- Sir John Collins, admiral
- Arnold Potts-World War II General
- Billy Sing-sniper
- Charles Kingsford Smith, aviator
- Sir Ross Macpherson Smith, 3rd Light Horse, Aviator
- Richard Travis-sniper
[edit] Austria-Hungary
- Karl I of Austria, last Emperor of Austria
- Archduke Friedrich, Duke of Teschen,Generalfeldmarshall
- Henry Taaffe, 12th Viscount Taaffe
- Tomasz Arciszewski, Polish Legion
- Peter Aufschnaiter, geographer/mountaineer
- Józef Beck, Polish statesman, (Polish Legion)Also served Poland
- Zygmunt Berling, Polish WWII leader-also served Poland
- Eduard Freiherr von Bohm-Ermolli
- Edmund Charaszkiewicz, Polish clandestine warrior {Also served Poland}
- Antoni Chrusciel, ALso served in Poland. {Polish General}
- Walerian Czuma, Polish WWII general Also served Poland
- Jerzy Pajaczkowski-Dydynski {also served France & Poland}
- Bolesław Wieniawa-Długoszowski, Polish general
- Henryk Dobrzanski, WWII guerilla commander
- Gustaw Orlicz-Dreszer, Polish general
- Bronisław Duch, Polish general
- Hanns Eisler, composer
- Karl Hermann Frank, Nazi official in Czechoslovakia
- Uri Zvi Greenberg, poet
- Jozef Haller de Hallenburg, Polish general also served under French command
- Stanisław Haller de Hallenburg, Polish general
- Jaroslav Hašek, member of Czech Legion; Czech author of The Good Soldier Švejk
- Miklós Horthy, Hungarian admiral
- Tadeusz Bor-Komorowski, Polish general
- Alojzy Wir-Konas, also Served Polish Legion
- August Kubizek
- Victor Kugler-AUstrian Navy
- Béla Kun, also served in Russia
- Bela Lugosi , actor of Dracula fame
- Kazimierz Orlik-Lukoski, WW II Polish Gneral
- Stanisław Maczek, WWII Polish general
- Henryk Minkiewicz, WWII Polish General
- Imre Nagy, also served Russia in the Red Army
- Adam Nieniewski, WWI Polish commander
- Pawel Parniak
- Józef Piłsudski, Polish Field Marshal
- Oskar Potiorek, Austrian general
- Rudolf Prich, WWII POlish General
- Mátyás Rákosi, Hungarian Prime Minister
- Hans Albin Rauter, WWII war criminal
- Stefan Grot-Rowecki, Polish general
- Edward Rydz, Marshal of Poland-served also in Poland
- Erwin Schrodinger.
- Arthur Seyss-Inquart
- Władysław Sikorski, commander-in-chief, Polish forces in WWII
- Stanisław Skarżyński, aviator
- Mieczyslaw Smorawinski. WW II POlish General
- Stanisław Sosabowski, WWII Polish general
- Stanislaw Szeptycki, WW II POlish General {Also served in Poland}
- Josip Broz Tito, Yugoslavian leader, also served in Siberia
- Michał Karaszewicz-Tokarzewski, Polish Legions
- Georg Ritter von Trapp, Navy
- Ludwig Wittgenstein, philosopher
- Paul Wittgenstein, one-armed pianist
- Juliusz Zulauf, Polish Legion WWII Polish General
- Michał Rola-Żymierski, post WWII Polish leader
[edit] Belgium
- Albert I of Belgium, King of Belgium
- Leopold III of Belgium, King of Belgium, fought as a private
[edit] Canada
- Jimmie Angel, Aviator
- Richard Arlen, American actor
- William George Barker, WWI fighter ace,VC
- Billy Bishop, top Canadian fighter ace
- Roy Brown (pilot), Canadian fighter ace
- Chief Buffalo Child Long Lance, {born Sylvestor Clark Long}
- Harry Crerar, Canada's leading field commander in World War II. Crerar was a lieutenant colonel during World War I.
- John Bernard Croak, Victoria Cross awardee
- Arthur Currie, first Canadian general World War I.
- Punch Dickins, bush pilot.
- William Faulkner, author
- George Reginald Geary, Mayor of Toronto from 1910 to 1912.
- Sam Hughes, the Canadian Minister of Militia and Defence during World War I.
- Raymond Massey, actor
- Wop May, fighter ace, "first bush pilot"
- John McCrae, author of In Flanders Fields.
- Grey Owl, {born Archiblad Belaney}
- Lester B. Pearson, fourteenth Prime Minister of Canada.
- George Lawrence Price, last Canadian killed in World War I.
- Sidney Reilly, adventurer
- William Stephenson, spymaster, codename Intrepid
[edit] France
- Maurice Chevalier actor, singer
- Charles de Gaulle, post WWII French leader
- Robert Benoist, soldier and aviator
- Marc Bloch, historian
- Eugene Bullard, aviator
- Céline, author Journey to the End of the Night
- Francois Darlan
- Joseph Darnand,
- Jerzy Pajaczkowski-Dydynski-also served in Austria-Hungary and Poland
- Jean de Lattre de Tassigny
- Maurice Floquet
- Maurice Gamelin, top French general at start of WWII
- Henri Giraud, French general
- Jozef Haller de Hallenburg, formerly served under Austrian Command
- Maurice Janin
- John Litel, actor
- Andre Maginot
- Rene Mayer
- Philippe Petain
- Rene Riffaud
- Sholom Schwartzbard, anarchist, also served in Russia
- Milan Rastislav Stefanik,
- Maxime Weygand
[edit] Germany
- Crown Prince Wilhelm of Germany
- Crown Prince Rupprecht of Bavaria
- Prince Leopold of Bavaria
- Prince Maximilian of Baden
- Prince Philip of Hesse-Kassel
- Ernst Ludwig, Grand Duke of Hesse and by Rhine
- Ernst August of Hanover, 3rd Duke of Cumberland
- Ernest Augustus III, Duke of Brunswick
- Carl Eduard, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
- Albrecht, Duke of Württemberg
- Wolf-Heinrich Graf von Helldorf
- Lutz Graf Schwerin von Krosigk
- Count Alfred Niezychowski
- Hans Albers
- Max Amann Nazi
- Erich von dem Bach SS General
- Carl Meyer Balbo Aviator aka "Karl Meyer"
- Hermann Balck
- Hermann Bauer
- Ludwig Beck
- Max Beckmann
- Hans Hartwig von Beseler
- Wilhelm Bittrich SS General
- Paul Blobel SS Officer
- Martin Bormann Nazi
- Philipp Bouhler Nazi
- Erich Brandenberger
- Theodor Busse
- Wilhelm Canaris
- Dietrich von Choltitz
- Kurt Daluege SS Officer
- Rudolf Diels
- Otto Dietrich SS Officer; NSDAP Press Officer
- Sepp Dietrich SS Officer
- Oskar Dirlewanger SS Officer
- Otto Dix
- Friedrich Dollman
- Karl Dönitz Nazi Admiral (Leader of Submarines), Hitler's successor
- Walter Dornberger
- Józef Dowbor-Muśnicki -also served Russia and Poland
- Theodor Duesterberg
- Heinrich Eberbach
- Joachim Albrecht Eggeling
- Theodor Eicke SS Officer
- Alfred Eisenstaedt
- Ludwig Erhard
- Erich von Falkenhayn
- Hermann Florstedt
- Hans Frank SS Officer
- Otto Frank
- Roland Freisler {Nazi Judge}
- Hans Fritzsche
- Walter Funk Nazi
- Mieczysław Garsztka, Aviator-also served in POland
- Hermann Göring, flying ace and WW2 Luftwaffe leader
- Richard Glücks SS General
- Robert Ritter von Greim
- Arthur Greiser SS General
- Jakob Grimminger
- Wilhelm Groener
- George Grosz
- Heinz Guderian Nazi tank general
- Fritz Haber
- Franz Halder
- Paul Hausser SS General
- Bruno Richard Hauptmann
- Karl Haushofer
- Paul Hausser SS General
- Martin Heidegger
- Gotthard Heinrici
- Rudolf Hess
- Heinrich Himmler, did not see combat, WW2 SS leader
- Paul von Hindenburg Leader of German forces in WWI
- Adolf Hitler, Iron Cross First Class recipient and WW2 leader
- Erich Hoepner
- Rudolf Höss SS Officer
- Max Hoffmann
- Hans-Valentin Hube
- Josef Jakobs
- Friedrich Gustav Jaeger
- Karl Jäger SS Officer
- Alfred Jodl
- Hanns Johst
- Ernst Jünger German author
- Edgar Julius Jung
- Erich Kaestner
- Wilhelm Keitel
- Friedrich Kellner Mainz Justice Inspector, diarist
- Albert Kesselring
- Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
- Paul Ludwig Ewald von Kleist
- Viktor Klemperer Jewish German intellectual
- Erich Koch SS Officer
- Count Lutz Schwerin von Krosigk
- Friedrich Wilhelm Krüger
- Fritz Kuhn Nazi
- Hans Lammers SS Officer
- Hans Langsdorff
- Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb
- Robert Ley Nazi
- Alexander Lippisch
- Wilhelm Friedrich Loeper
- Count Felix von Luckner
- Erich Ludendorff
- Viktor Lutze
- August von Mackensen
- Erich von Manstein Nazi general
- Hasso von Manteuffel
- Karl Mauss
- Willy Messerschmitt
- Erhard Milch
- Walter Model
- Theodore Morell Hitler doctor
- Heinrich Müller Gestapo
- Konstantin von Neurath
- Hans Nieland
- Helmuth von Pannwitz
- Franz von Papen
- Friedrich Paulus
- Fritz Pfeffer
- Oswald Pohl SS, main figure in Holocaust
- Erich Raeder Nazi admiral
- Johannes Rattenhuber-see List of SS Personnel
- Erich Maria Remarque, author of All Quiet on the Western Front
- Lothar von Richthofen {Brother of Manfred von Richthofen}
- Wolfram von Richthofen
- Joachim von Ribbentrop
- Rainer Maria Rilke
- Ernst Röhm SA leader until 1934
- Erwin Rommel, "The Desert Fox"
- Gerd von Rundstedt
- Hans von Salmuth
- Erich Salomon
- Franz Pfeffer von Salomon
- Otto Liman von Sanders
- Dr. Emanuel Schaefer-SS Colonel-see List of SS Personnel
- Rudolf von Scheliha
- Albert Leo Schlageter
- Kurt von Schleicher
- Franz Seldte
- Richard Sorge Communist spy
- Hugo Sperrle
- Felix Steiner
- Hyazinth Graf Strachwitz von Gross-Zauche und Camminetz
- Gregor Strasser Nazi leftwinger
- Otto Strasser Nazi leftwinger
- Bruno Streckenbach Nazi/SS General
- Julius Streicher Nazi
- Jurgen Stroop SS General
- Kurt Student
- Ernst Thälmann Leader of the KPD (German Communist Party) until 1933
- Ludwig Thoma
- Fritz Todt
- Kurt Tucholsky author and journalist
- Ernst Udet
- Jozef Unrug-also served in Poland
- Friedrich Wolf
- Karl Wolff SS Officer
- Wilhelm Zaisser Communist
- Kurt Zeitzler
[edit] Ireland
- John Henry Patterson (author) Royal Engineers DSO. Commander of the Zion Mule Corps and the 38th Battalion of the Royal Fusiliers aka Jewish Legion
[edit] Italy
- Angelo Roncalli, Pope John XXIII
- Benito Mussolini, WWII leader
- Robert Ludvigovich Bartini, Aircraft designer for USSR
- Antonio Todde, One of Oldest documented Living men
- Giuseppe Zangara, would be presidential Assassin
[edit] New Zealand
- E.W.C.Chaytor-General commanded the Anzac Mounted Division.
- Bernard Freyberg, WWII general, VC, First to land in Anzac Cove
- Keith Park, WWII RAF general, played by Trevor Howard in the film Battle of Britain
- Victor Grayson, English socialist politician
[edit] Poland {1918/1919 2nd Republic}
- Jozef Beck,also served Austria-Hungary
- Zygmunt Berling,also served Austria-Hungary
- Leon Billewicz, also served in Russia
- Bronislaw Bohatyrewicz, also served in Russia
- Edmund Charaszkiewicz, also served Austria-Hungary
- Antoni Chrusciel, also served Austria-Hungary
- Xawery Czernicki, Navy-also served in Russia
- Walerian Czuma, also served Austria-Hungary
- Boleslaw Wieniawa-Dlugoszowski,also served Austra-Hungary
- Henryk Dobrzanski,also served Austria-Hungary
- Gustaw Orlicz-Dreszer, also served Austria-Hungary
- Bronislaw Duch,also served Austria-Hungary
- Jerzy Pajaczkowski-Dydynski-also served in Austia-Hungary & France
- Mieczyslaw Garsztka, aviator, also served in Germany
- Stanislaw Haller de Hallenburg, also served in Austria-Hungary Army
- Ludwik Idzikowski, aviator, also served in Russia
- Alojzy Wir-Konas,also served Austria-Hungary Army
- Stanislaw Kopanski, also served in Russia
- Kazimierz Orlik-Lukoski, also served in Austria-HUngary Army
- Henryk Minkiewicz, also served in Austria-Hungary Army
- Adam Nieniewski, also served Asutria-Hungary
- Jozef Dowbor-Musnicki, Polish general, also served in Russia and Germany
- Witold Pilecki {Served in Polish Self defense unit at Wilno Lithuania}
- Konstanty Plisowski, also served in Russia
- Kazimierz Porebski,NAvy-also served in Russia
- Rudolf Prich, also served in Austria-Hungary Army
- Stefan Grot-Rowecki, also served Austria-Hungary
- Edward Rydz, also served in Austria-Hungary
- Wladyslaw Sikorski, also served Austria-Hungary
- Stanislaw Skarzynski, aviator
- Piotr Skuratowicz, also served in Russia
- Mieczyslaw Smorawinski, also served in Austria-Hungary Army
- Stanislaw Swianiewicz-member of Polish Military Organisation
- Stanislaw Szeptycki, also served Austria-Hungary
- Arthur Szyk, also served in Russian Army
- Michal Karaszewicz-Tokarzewski, also served Austria Hungary
- Jozef Unrug, Polish Army/Navy, also served German Navy
- Lucjan Zeligowski, WWII Polish general, also served in Russia
- Juliusz Zulauf, also served Austria-Hungary
- Michal Rola-Zymierski,also served Austria-Hungary
[edit] Portugal
- José Norton de Matos, General
- Tomás António Garcia Rosado, General
[edit] Russia
- Grand Duke Nicholas
- Prince Constantine Constantinovich of Russia
- Prince Igor Constantinovich of Russia
- Prince Ioann Constantinovich of Russia
- Prince Vladimir Pavlovich Paley
- Baron Roman Ungern von Sternberg
- Mikhail Alekseev
- Wladyslaw Anders
- Leon Billewicz-also served Poland
- Bronislaw Bohatyrewicz-also served Poland
- Aleksei Brusilov
- Stanislaw Bulak-Balachowicz
- Semyon Budyonny
- Gayk Bzhishkyan
- Vasily Chuikov
- Xawery Czernicki-also served Polish Republic
- Anton Ivanovich Denikin
- Mikhail Drozdovsky
- Alexander Dutov
- Alexander Procofieff de Seversky
- Radola Gajda {Czech Legion}
- Ludwik Idzikowski-also served Polish Republic {1918}
- Sergey Ilyushin
- Aleksei Maksimovich Kaledin
- Nikita Khrushchev
- Sergey Kirov
- Aleksandr Kolchak
- Ivan Konev
- Stanislaw Kopanski {1st Polish Corps}{Also served in Poland}
- Lavr Georgevich Kornilov
- Pyotr Krasnov
- Béla Kun, also served Austro-Hungarian Army
- Alexander Kutepov
- Sergey Markov
- Vladimir May-Mayevsky
- Kirill Meretskov
- Evgenii Miller
- Józef Dowbor-Muśnicki {1st Polish Legionnaires Corps-also served Poland}
- Imre Nagy also served Austro-Hungarian Army
- Ignacy Oziewicz
- Konstanty Plisowski-also served in Polish Republic
- Viktor Pokrovsky
- Kazimierz Porebski-also served in Polish Republic
- Paul von Rennenkampf
- Konstantin Rokossovsky
- Yitzhak Sadeh
- Alexander Samsonov
- Sholom Schwartzbard, formerly served under French command
- Grigory Mikhailovich Semenov
- Andrei Shkuro
- Piotr Skuratowicz-also served in POlish Republic
- Arthur Szyk-also served in Polish Republic
- Stanislaw Tatar-also served in Poland
- Semyon Timoshenko
- Josip Broz Tito, Also served Austrian-Hungarian Army
- Mikhail Tukhachevsky
- Jukums Vacietis
- Pyotr Wrangel
- Vadim Yakovlev
- Nikolai Nikolaevich Yudenich
- Lucjan Zeligowski-also fought in Poland
- Georgi Zhukov
- Franciszek Zwirko
[edit] Serbia
- Alexander I of Yugoslavia, first King of Yugoslavia
- Dragoljub Mihailovic, WWII Serbian general/partisan leader awarded US Legion of Merit
- Zivojin Misic, Serbian Field Marshal
- Radomir Putnik, Serbian Field Marshal
[edit] Ottoman Empire
- Amin al-Husayni, Palestinian nationalist
- Mustafa Kemal Ataturk Hero of Gallipoli and founder of the Secular Republic of Turkey
- Fevzi Çakmak
[edit] United Kingdom
- King Edward VIII of the United Kingdom
- King George VI of the United Kingdom
- Prince Arthur of Connaught
- Prince George, Duke of Kent
- Prince Adolphus of Teck
- Prince Alexander of Teck
- Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma
- George Cambridge, 2nd Marquess of Cambridge
- Roger Keyes, 1st Baron Keyes
- Gershon Agron {Jewish Legion}
- John Alcock (aviator)
- Clement Attlee, post-WWII Prime Minister
- Albert Ball, aviator, awarded VC
- Tom Barry, Irish guerrilla leader
- Nigel Bruce, actor
- David Ben-Gurion {Jewish Legion}
- Itzhak Ben-Zvi {Jewish Legion}
- Edmund Blunden, War Poet and Author
- Arthur Whitten Brown, aviator
- Frederick Browning, WWII general
- Robert Erskine Childers, Irish nationalist
- Winston Churchill, Future Prime Minister
- Noel Coward, actor/playwright/composer
- Adrian Carton De Wiart, WWII general, VC
- Yaakov Dori {Jewish Legion}
- Sholto Douglas
- Hugh Dowding, 1st Baron Dowding, commander of the Royal Air Force during the Battle of Britain.
- Reginald Dunne
- Anthony Eden, future Prime Minister
- SirJacob Epstein {Jewish Legion}
- Levi Eshkol (Jewish Legion}
- J.F.C. Fuller - military writer
- Robert Graves, Author
- Arthur Harris
- Basil Liddell Hart - military writer
- Samuel Hoare
- Leslie Howard (Actor) (Gone with the wind)
- Dov Hoz {Jewish Legion}
- Zeev Jabotinsky {Jewish Legion}
- Charles Laughton
- John Laurie, actor
- C.S. Lewis, author The Chronicles of Narnia
- James McCudden VC
- Harold Macmillan, future Prime Minister
- Albert "Smiler" Marshall
- A.E.W. Mason , author The Four Feathers
- Bernard Law Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein
- George Leigh Mallory Everest Mountaineer
- Trafford Leigh-Mallory highest ranking British officer to die during WWII.
- Victor McLaglen{actor}
- James F. Morris
- Oswald Mosley
- Lord Moyne
- Sir Philip Neame VC
- Richard O'Conner MC
- Liam O'Flaherty
- Wilfred Owen Poet
- Keith Park, future R.A.F commander
- Cecil Parker
- Herbert Plumer
- Alexander Ramsey
- Basil Rathbone actor (Sherlock Holmes)
- Arnold Ridley, actor
- Kermit Roosevelt, joined AEF upon USA joining the war
- Siegfried Sassoon War Poet and Author
- Ernest Aldrich Simpson
- Sir Bill Slim
- Sir Keith Macpherson Smith, RAF
- Sir Horace Smith-Dorrien
- Sir Ivan Stedeford, Industrialist, RNAS
- Sir William Stephenson, RAF
- J.R.R. Tolkien, author The Lord of the Rings
- Percy Toplis
- Joseph Trumpeldor Zion Mule Corps
- Alec Waugh, author
- Henry Hughes Wilson
[edit] United States
- Terry De La Mesa Allen, WW II General U.S. 1st Infantry Division & U.S. 104th Infantry Division
- Henry Harley Arnold, WWII general, first Chief of Staff of U.S. Air Force, US Army
- Jack Benny, actor/comedian, US Navy
- Thomas Hart Benton, painter, US Navy
- Humphrey Bogart US Navy
- Lewis H. Brereton US Army
- Robert Elliott Burns
- Smedley Butler USMC
- Richard E. Byrd, US Navy
- Pedro Albizu Campos, US Army
- James Vincenzo Capone, US Army
- Claire Chennault, Flying Tigers founder, US Army
- Mark Wayne Clark, WWII general, US Army
- Ty Cobb, MLB Hall of Fame batter/outfielder, US Army
- Nicholas Colo, Cook, Italian immigrant
- Richard Connell, US Army
- Daniel Daly, USMC
- Herman Davis, US Army
- Walt Disney,Ambulance service
- Brian Donlevy, US Air service
- William J. Donovan US Army
- Jimmy Doolittle US Army
- John Foster Dulles
- Ira Eaker US Army
- Merritt A. Edson, USMC
- Robert Eichelberger US Army
- Sam Ervin US Army
- James Reese Europe US Army
- Wesley Everest US Army
- Daniel Flaherty US Army
- Frank Jack Fletcher US Navy
- James Forrestal US Navy
- Hoot Gibson, actor, US Army
- William Halsey, Jr US Navy
- Moses Hardy, US Army {One of oldest Documented men}
- Ernest Hemingway, author, Ambulance Service
- Lewis Blaine Hershey, served 62 years {1911-1973} Mexican Expedition to Vietnam!
- Courtney Hodges US Army
- Shemp Howard
- Edward Jacobson US Army
- Henry Lincoln Johnson US Army
- Buster Keaton, actor, US Army
- George Kenney US Air Service, USArmy
- Geoffrey Keyes US Army
- Isaac C. Kidd US Navy
- Edward P. King US Army
- Ernest J. King, WWII admiral, US Navy
- Walter Krueger, WWII general, US Army
- Fiorello Henry La Guardia, NYC mayor, US Army
- Oliver Law US Army
- William C. Lee US Army
- John A. Lejeune USMC
- Douglas MacArthur, WWII and Korean War general, US Army
- William March, writer, USMC
- George C. Marshall, WWII general and U.S. Secretary of State, US Army
- Gummo Marx
- Christy Mathewson, MLB Hall of Fame pitcher, US Army
- Leslie J. McNair, WWII general, US Army
- Victor Mills, WWI US Navy, Inventor
- Marc Mitscher, WWII admiral, US Navy
- Billy Mitchell US Army
- Chester Nimitz, WWII admiral, US Navy
- Pat O'Brien (actor), US Navy
- John Painter, US Army {One of Oldest documented men}
- Alexander M. Patch, WWII general, US Army
- George S. Patton, WWII general, US Army
- John J. Pershing US Army
- Chesty Puller, WWII and Korean War general, USMC
- Ernie Pyle, WWII war correspondent, US Navy
- Eddie Rickenbacker top scoring American figther Ace, US Army
- Joseph Rochefort US Navy {DSM & PMF}
- Keller E. Rockey USMC
- Archibald Roosevelt
- Kermit Roosevelt, also served for United Kingdom until the United States joined the war
- Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., WWII general & Normandy Medal of Honor recipient, US Army
- Norman Scott US Navy
- Rodger W. Simpson Rear Admiral US Navy
- Holland Smith USMC
- Oliver Prince Smith USMC
- Walter Bedell Smith US Army
- Carl Spaatz, WWII general, US Army
- Raymond Spruance, WWII admiral, US Navy
- Adali Stevenson, US Navy, Governor of Illinois
- Joseph Stilwell, WWII general, US Army
- Sergeant Stubby, US Army war dog
- Turkey Tayac, US Army Rainbow Division
- Peter Tomich, WWII Pearl Harbor Medal of Honor recipient, US Army
- Emiliano Mercado del Toro, One of oldest documented men
- Harry S. Truman, US President, US Army
- Lucian Truscott, WWII general, US ARmy
- Alexander Vandegrift WWII general and Guadalcanal Medal of Honor recipient, USMC
- Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright IV, WWII general, US Army
- Kenneth N. Walker, WW II General {Medal of Honor KIA 1943 see [1] {For reference only}
- Walton Walker US Army
- Alvin York, most decorated WWI veteran, US Army
Of the above, fewer than 200 were still alive as of November 11, 2003.[1] As of November 16, 2006, only 15 remained.[2]
[edit] References
- ^ CNN, "WWI veterans remember their service", November 11, 2003. Retrieved November 16, 2006.
- ^ Surviving veterans of World War I. Retrieved November 16, 2006.
[edit] See also
- Veterans of the First World War who died in 2006
- Veterans of the First World War who died in 2005
- Veterans of the First World War who died in 2004
- Veterans of the First World War who died in 2003
- Veterans of the First World War who died in 2002
- Veterans of the First World War who died in 2001
- Veterans of the First World War who died in 2000
- Veterans of the First World War who died in 1999