Sunday, March 20, 2011

The last British have gone - now the last American.

No one knows quite why American soldiers were once known as "doughboys". But Frank Buckles was indisputably the very last of them – the sole American still alive who went to Europe to fight in the First World War, after the US entered the conflict in 1917.

The Independent - obituaries.

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