Nightly News   |  May 05, 2011

Last known WWI combat vet dies at 110

Claude Choules, who joined the British Royal Navy when he was just 14, was also the last veteran to have fought in both World Wars. NBC’s Brian Williams reports.

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>> the last known surviving combat veteran of world war i has died. claude shantanley shuls was the last to fight in both world wars . he joined the british royal navy when he was 14. he died today in a nursing home in australia at the age of 110.