Wednesday, February 8, 2012

Last Known Surviving Veteran of World War I


Florence Green on her 109th birthday

DID YOU KNOW THAT . . . Florence Green was the last known surviving veteran of World War I and the 6th oldest person in Britain? Born Florence Beatrice Patterson in London on Feb. 19, 1901, she joined the newly formed Women's Royal Air Force in September 1918 at the age of 17 where she worked as a waitress in the officers' mess, first at the Narborough airdrome and then at Royal Air Force, Marham in eastern England, and was serving there when the war ended on Nov. 11, 1918. It was not until 2010 that she was officially recognized as a veteran after a British correspondent, Andrew Holmes of the US-based Gerontology Research Group, found her service record in Britain's National Archives. Green died at aged 110 Saturday at the Briar House Care Home in King's Lynn, eastern England, two weeks before her 111th birthday. She is survived by two daughters, a son and several grandchildren and great-grandchildren.

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