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27 February 2011. 110 years. The last surviving veteran from the Colony of Jamaica was Stanley Stair [ 33] (d. 2008) and from British Guyana was Gershom Browne [ 34] (d. 2000). Thomas Shaw (d. 2002) was the last veteran from Ireland, [ 35] and Alfred Anderson (d. 2005) was the last from Scotland.
The Armistice of 11 November 1918 was the armistice signed at Le Francport near Compiègne that ended fighting on land, at sea, and in the air in World War I between the Entente and their last remaining opponent, Germany. Previous armistices had been agreed with Bulgaria, the Ottoman Empire and Austria-Hungary.
Alvin Cullum York (December 13, 1887 – September 2, 1964), also known by his rank as Sergeant York, was an American soldier who was one of the most decorated United States Army soldiers of World War I. [ 1] He received the Medal of Honor for leading an attack on a German machine gun nest, gathering 35 machine guns, killing at least 25 [ 2 ...
William Henry Johnson (circa July 15, 1892 – July 1, 1929), commonly known as Henry Johnson, [ 2] was a United States Army soldier who performed heroically in the first African American unit of the United States Army to engage in combat in World War I. [ 3] On watch in the Argonne Forest on May 14, 1918, he fought off a German raid in hand-to ...
The Battle of the Somme ( French: Bataille de la Somme; German: Schlacht an der Somme ), also known as the Somme offensive, was a major battle of the First World War fought by the armies of the British Empire and the French Third Republic against the German Empire. It took place between 1 July and 18 November 1916 on both sides of the upper ...
The Meuse–Argonne offensive (also known as the Meuse River–Argonne Forest offensive, [ 6] the Battles of the Meuse–Argonne, and the Meuse–Argonne campaign) was a major part of the final Allied offensive of World War I that stretched along the entire Western Front. It was fought from September 26, 1918, until the Armistice of November 11 ...
Audie Leon Murphy (20 June 1925 – 28 May 1971) [ 1] was an American soldier, actor, and songwriter. He was widely celebrated as the most decorated American combat soldier of World War II, [ 4] and has been described as the most highly decorated soldier in U.S. history. [ 5][ 6] He received every military combat award for valor available from ...
The Battle of Mons was the first major action of the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) in the First World War. It was a subsidiary action of the Battle of the Frontiers, in which the Allies clashed with Germany on the French borders. At Mons, the British Army attempted to hold the line of the Mons–Condé Canal against the advancing German 1st ...