according to http://genealogytrails.com/main/lastveterans.html there are two claimants
Nathan Edward Cook (October 10, 1885 - September 10, 1992) sailor (U.S. Navy)
Jones Morgan
(October 23, 1882?-August 29, 1993) Last surviving member of the original Buffalo Soldiers. He served as a cook with the 10th Cavalry in the SAW
The last veteran of World War 1 died on February 27, 2011.
Yellow Fever claimed the Majority of the US casualties.
Yes, more died from disease than from battlefield trauma.
The last person to die in WW1 was an American soldier named Henry Gunther. The armistice was set to begin at 11 and he was killed at 10:59.
The last of Henry VIII wives to die was Anne of Cleves. She died from a sweating sickness plaguing London.
Albert Brown - American veteran - died in 2011.
Ed Walker - American veteran - died in 2011.
The last veteran of World War 1 died on February 27, 2011.
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Albert Woolson was the last veteran of the civil war. And no he was not the last African American he was indeed white. He died in 1847. Decades after the civil war.I hope this helped :)
The last verified veteran of the American Civil War, Frank Woodruff Buckles, died on February 27, 2011. He was 110 years old at the time of his death. Buckles served in the U.S. Army during World War I and was recognized for being the last living Civil War veteran until his passing.
Florence Green
Around 1988 he is on youtube.
The novelist Compton Mackenzie, born in 1883, claimed in his memoirs that he had sat on the knee of a Waterloo veteran as a child.
Julius the Veteran died in 302.
Malaria.
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