World’s last World War I veteran dies

The world’s last surviving World War I veteran, who served in Britain’s Women’s Royal Air Force, has died aged 110.

Florence Green, who joined the WRAF as a 17-year-old in 1918, died in her sleep at a care home in King’s Lynn, eastern England, on Saturday.

“She led an amazing and extraordinary life,” Ms Green’s daughter June Evetts told newspapers. “She must have seen a lot of changes in her time”.

She added: “Mum certainly wouldn’t shout about the fact she was the last veteran.

“She was, however, very proud of what she did and we are all very proud of her.”

Ms Green joined the WRAF as a mess steward two months before the armistice and served at Royal Air Force bases in Norfolk, eastern England.

Though she never saw frontline action, she is classed as having served in the war.

Claude Choules, the world’s last known combat veteran of what was then called the Great War, died in Australia aged 110 in May last year.