List of last surviving World War I veterans by country

The last surviving veteran of World War I per country is shown in the table below, along with any living veterans.

Country Name Death date Age
 Algeria Saci Ben Hocine Mahdi[1] 01998-06-01June 1998 100 years
 Austria August Bischof[2] 02006-03-044 March 2006 107 years
 Australia John Campbell Ross[3] 02009-06-033 June 2009 110 years
 Barbados George Blackman[4] 02003-03-01March 2003 105 years
 Belgium Cyrillus-Camillus Barbary[5] 02004-09-1616 September 2004 105 years
 Canada John Babcock[6] 02010-02-1818 February 2010 109 years
 Czechoslovakia Alois Vocásek[7] 02003-08-099 August 2003 107 years
 Denmark Lorenz Gram[8] 02004-12-2626 December 2004 105 years
 Estonia Juhan Kallaste[9] 01999-08-2828 August 1999 107 years
 France Lazare Ponticelli[10]

(Last to be officially recognized as a poilu.)

 02008-03-1212 March 2008 110 years
 France Pierre Picault[11] 02008-11-2020 November 2008 109 years
 Germany Erich Kästner[12] 02008-01-011 January 2008 107 years
 Guyana Gershom Browne[13][14] 02000-12-066 December 2000 102 years
 Hungary Franz Künstler[15] 02008-05-2727 May 2008 107 years
 Italy Delfino Borroni[16] 02008-10-2626 October 2008 110 years
 Jamaica Stanley Stair[17][18] 02008-04-01April 2008 107 years
 Netherlands Bert van Sloten[19] 02005-09-01September 2005 105 years
 Newfoundland and Labrador Wallace Pike[20] 01999-04-1111 April 1999  99 years
 New Zealand Bright Williams[21] 02003-02-1313 February 2003 105 years
 Philippines Eracleo Alimpolo[22][23] 02002-10-022 October 2002 104 years
 Poland Stanisław Wycech[24] 02008-01-1212 January 2008 105 years
 Portugal José Ladeira[25] 02003-05-055 May 2003 107 years
 Romania Gheorghe Pănculescu[26] 02007-01-099 January 2007 104 years
 Russian Federation Dmitry Malozemov[27] 01998-05-1313 May 1998 101 years
 Senegal Abdoulaye N'Diaye[1] 01998-11-1010 November 1998 104 years
 Serbia Aleksa Radovanović[28] 02004-06-2222 June 2004 105 years
 Slovenia Ivan Kovačič[29] 02001-04-1616 April 2001 103 years
 South Africa Norman Kark[30][31] 02000-03-01March 2000 102 years
 Thailand Yod Sangrungruang[32] 02003-10-099 October 2003 106 years
 Turkey Yakup Satar[33] 02008-04-022 April 2008 110 years
 Ukraine Mikhail Krichevsky[34][35] 02008-12-2626 December 2008 111 years
 United Kingdom Florence Green[36] Living 111 years
 United States Frank Buckles[37] 02011-02-2727 February 2011 110 years

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