February 7, 201214 yr From Last WWI veteran dies [excerpt] Last WW I veteran, a waitress, dies in U.K.Last Updated: Feb 7, 2012 11:39 AM ET Florence Green, the world's last known veteran of the First World War, has died in England at the age of 110, the care home where she lived said Tuesday. Briar House Care Home in King's Lynn, England, said Green died Saturday, two weeks before her 111th birthday. Born Florence Beatrice Patterson in London on Feb. 19, 1901, she joined the Women's Royal Air Force in September 1918 at the age of 17.
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