Here he is.....one left in my city....108 yrs old..
Britain's last WWI vet living in Perth retirement homehttp://www.news.com.au/perthnow/story/0,21598,25837281-2761,00.html
A FORMER Royal Australian Navy sailor and World War II veteran living in Perth, aged 108, is now Britain's last surviving World War I veteran.
Harry Patch, Britain's last soldier to fight in the trenches of Europe during World War I, died yesterday, aged 111.
Perth man Claude Choules is now Britain's last remaining World War I veteran.
Born in Pershore, England in March 1901, Mr Choules served with the Royal Navy after joining the HMS Impregnable at 15, in 1916.
He joined the battleship HMS Revenge in 1917 and witnessed the surrender of the German Fleet at Firth of Forth, near Scotland, in 1918.
The German surrender came 10 days after the armistice and the Germans later scuttled its own fleet at Scapa Flow near the Orkney Islands.
Mr Choules travelled to Australia with the Royal Navy in 1926 to work as an instructor at Flinders Naval Depot before transferring to the Royal Australian Navy.
He was a commissioning crew member of the HMAS Canberra and served in her until 1931, when he discharged from the RAN before rejoining as a torpedo and anti-submarine instructor in 1932.
As the acting torpedo officer at Fremantle in World War I,I Mr Choules disposed of the first German mine to wash up on Australian soil, near Esperance, during the war.
He was also tasked with destroying harbour and oil storage tanks at the Fremantle port in case of a Japanese invasion.
Mr Choules remained in the RAN after WWII, spending his final working years at the Naval Dockyard Police before joining the crayfishing industry, in Safety Bay.
He now lives in a Perth retirement village.
Mr Choules is one of three remaining WWI veterans in the world.
American Frank Buckles, 108, and Canadian John Babcock, 109 - who both live in the United States - are alive, but neither saw active combat, according to news sources.