Last First World War Veteran Dies

Florence Green, 1901-2012.

Florence Green, the last surviving veteran of the First World War, has died at the age of 110. Green enlisted with the U.K.'s Women's Royal Air Force, or WRAF, in September 1918, just months before Germany signed an armistice with the allies. She spent her time in the WRAF as an Officer's Mess steward, serving pilots and other officers their meals at Narbough Airfield and the air base in Marham. Just seventeen when she signed up, Green went on to have three children, four grandchildren, and seven great-grandchildren. Her death follows the passing of Claude Choules, the last combat veteran of the Great War, in May of last year. Green was just two weeks shy of her 111th birthday. She was the sixth oldest person in the United Kingdom at the time of her death.