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05-05-2011, 11:03 AM
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 Obituary: Claude Choules Quote:
Born in Pershore, Worcestershire in 1901, he tried to sign up for the army at the beginning of World War I but he was too young.
Two years later, at the age of 15, he joined the Royal Navy serving on board the training ship HMS Impregnable based at Devonport.
His earliest memories in the service were of seeing the convoys of ships, returning to Britain, carrying the wounded from the Battle of the Somme.
In 1917 he transferred to the battleship HMS Revenge, one of the newest and most powerful ships in the British fleet and the flagship of the First Battle Squadron.
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05-05-2011, 11:06 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Tyneside, UK | | | Another period of history ended. RIP.
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05-05-2011, 11:07 AM
|  | Online | | Join Date: Apr 2001 Location: Sunapee, New Hampshire | | Your link is messed up, bro.
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05-05-2011, 11:27 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Edinburgh & Dundee, Scotland | | | Saw that on the news, it's a shame. Great example of Britishness!
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05-05-2011, 11:39 AM
|  | That's the way uh huh uh huh I like it.. | | Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Robbinsville, NJ | | | With each one that passes, our collective history gets forever committed to the black and white pages of old dusty books...
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05-05-2011, 11:45 AM
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Originally Posted by Relic With each one that passes, our collective history gets forever committed to the black and white pages of old dusty books... | That fewer and fewer seem to read |
05-05-2011, 11:48 AM
|  | Hammer On! | | Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: Babbling Brook | | | 40 years in uniform, what a soldier!
RIP Claude!
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05-05-2011, 11:56 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2008 Location: Sioux Falls, SD | | | I can't imagine any soldier who lived through WWI willingly engaging in the Second one as well.
Wow. |
05-05-2011, 12:26 PM
| | Online | | Join Date: Apr 2001 Location: Sunapee, New Hampshire | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Ray Salamon That fewer and fewer seem to read | That's why we have movies. You don't have to read!!!!! 
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05-05-2011, 04:34 PM
|  | Esteemed Nitpicker | | Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: A Galaxy Far, Far Away | | I just logged on to start this thread. Here's the vid I saw: Last WWI combat veteran dies at 110.
And what you guys said about losing history.
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