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Title: Goodbye Mr Buckles. Post by: leefer on Monday, February 28, 2011, 22:27:42 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Buckles
What an incredible life.....bet when being chased by the hun aged 17 ..........110 seemed a long way off! The US get a lot of stick and rightly so....but this yank deserves eternal credit along with thousands of his countrymen. Title: Re: Goodbye Mr Buckles. Post by: london_red on Tuesday, March 1, 2011, 08:01:44 Indeed leefer, important to remember their sacrifice - certainly makes many of our gripes and problems seem trivial.
Didn't realise there is evidently now only one surviving soldier who fought in WW1....and a Brit no less... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_Choules (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_Choules) |