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Claude Choules

1901 - 2011

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Claude Stanley Choules (; 3 March 1901 – 5 May 2011) was a British-born military serviceman from Pershore, Worcestershire, who at the time of his death was the oldest combat veteran of the First World War from England, having served with the Royal Navy from 1915 until 1926. After having emigrated to Australia he served with the Royal Australian Navy, from 1926 until 1956, as a chief petty officer and was a naturalised Australian citizen. He was the last surviving military witness to the scuttling of the German fleet in Scapa Flow in 1919 and the last surviving veteran to have served in both world wars. At the time of his death, he was the third-oldest verified military veteran in the world and the oldest known living man in Australia. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Claude Choules is the 1,232nd most popular military personnel (up from 1,267th in 2019), the 2,406th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 2,161st in 2019) and the 56th most popular British Military Personnel.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Claude Choules ranks 1,232 out of 2,058. Before him are Lucius D. Clay, Friedrich Sixt von Armin, Philippicus, Claude François de Malet, Gustav-Adolf von Zangen, and Juan Yagüe. After him are Bardas Phokas the Younger, George Dewey, Maximilian Njegovan, Roussel de Bailleul, Adolphe Pégoud, and Nina Lobkovskaya.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1901, Claude Choules ranks 145. Before him are Mario Scelba, Umberto Caligaris, Edwina Mountbatten, Countess Mountbatten of Burma, Ismail al-Azhari, Spyridon Marinatos, and Mária Mednyánszky. After him are Ramón Serrano Suñer, Joachim Ernst, Duke of Anhalt, Otto Ambros, Ernest Nagel, Franz Konwitschny, and Yuliya Solntseva. Among people deceased in 2011, Claude Choules ranks 158. Before him are Jackie Cooper, Maria Altmann, Robert Brout, Takaji Mori, Arnfinn Bergmann, and George Baker. After him are Bora Kostić, Otakar Vávra, Kurt Sanderling, Diane Cilento, Montserrat Figueras, and Anne McCaffrey.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Claude Choules ranks 2,406 out of 8,785. Before him are Guy Edwards (1942), Konstantinos Paspatis (1878), David Tennant (1971), Sherburne Wesley Burnham (1838), Joseph Fiennes (1970), and Gary Glitter (1944). After him are James Stephenson (1889), James Steuart (1712), Cynewulf of Wessex (750), Derek Warwick (1954), Catherine of York (1479), and Ian Stewart (1945).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In United Kingdom

Among military personnels born in United Kingdom, Claude Choules ranks 56. Before him are FitzRoy Somerset, 1st Baron Raglan (1788), Thomas Cochrane, 10th Earl of Dundonald (1775), Arthur Percival (1887), Robert Maynard (1684), David Stirling (1915), and John Tovey, 1st Baron Tovey (1885). After him are J. F. C. Fuller (1878), John Fastolf (1380), Bruce Fraser, 1st Baron Fraser of North Cape (1888), John Burgoyne (1722), John Vereker, 6th Viscount Gort (1886), and Jeffery Amherst, 1st Baron Amherst (1717).

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