how many vets are still alive from ww1?
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The last living veteran of World War I was Florence Green, a British citizen who served in the Allied armed forces, and who died 4 February 2012, aged 110. The last combat veteran was Claude Choules who served in the British Royal Navy (and later the Royal Australian Navy) and died 5 May 2011, aged 110.
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But there has been no conscription since 1973, when the draft was abolished after opposition to fighting in Vietnam. “There was huge support for ending the draft across the political spectrum,” Dr. Mittelstadt said. The modern-day military is now an all-volunteer force, with about 1.2 million active-duty troops.
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Yielding to the inalterable process of aging, the men and women who fought and won the great conflict are now in their late 80s and 90s. They are dying quickly—according to US Department of Veterans Affairs statistics, 389,292 of the 16 million Americans who served in World War II are alive in 2019.
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The British Armed Forces are a professional force with a strength of 149,080 UK Regulars and Gurkhas, 37,060 Volunteer Reserves and 7,840 "Other Personnel" as of 1 April 2020. This gives a total strength of 193,980 "UK Service Personnel".
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We know that this is the main age group who served during some time of the war. ... By a rough estimate there are about 275.000 German male veterans of WWII still alive in early 2017.
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But as the world commemorates the 75th anniversary of the Normandy invasion — D-Day, as it is termed by many — that memory is fading. Historians estimate that only 500,000 of the more than 16 million Americans who served during World War II are still living.
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There are now just 11 Kokoda veterans of the 39th still alive - three in Queensland and eight in Victoria.
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John Babcock, Canada's last World War I veteran, has died at the age of 109. A 16-year-old when he went in search of military glory, Babcock was the last of the 650,000 men and women Canada recruited to serve in the “war to end all wars.”
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There were a total of 1.3 million active duty military and more than 800,000 reserve forces as of September 2017, according to Defense Department personnel data.
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But as the world commemorates the 75th anniversary of the Normandy invasion — D-Day, as it is termed by many — that memory is fading. ... Fewer than 1,000 D-Day veterans are believed to be alive, according to the National World War II Museum in New Orleans.
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On 75th anniversary of V-E Day, about 300,000 American WWII veterans are alive.
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The last living veteran of World War I was Florence Green, a British citizen who served in the Allied armed forces, and who died 4 February 2012, aged 110. ... The last Central Powers veteran, Franz Künstler of Austria-Hungary, died on 27 May 2008 at the age of 107.
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Animal lost in war It is estimated that 484,143 British horses, mules, camels and bullocks died between 1914 and 1918. And many hundreds of dogs, carrier pigeons and other animals also died on various fronts. Many of our inspectors lost their lives in their attempts to save animals forced to participate in war.
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According to Veterans Affairs Canada (VAC), 33,200 Second World War veterans are still alive in Canada, including 7,500 in British Columbia.
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There are no US veterans of World War One alive. The last to die was Frank Buckles on 27 Feb 2011 at the age of 110. He was a resident of Charles Town, West Virginia. He drove an Army ambulance in France in 1918.
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According to the office for national statistics there were approximately a quarter of a million people aged 90+ living in the UK in September last year. So there are probably tens of thousands of men who saw combat, and possibly 100,000+ men and women who were actively involved in the war effort still alive.
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In World War 2, 16 million Americans served in the armed forces and according to the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, less than 500,000 U.S. World War 2 veterans were still alive as of 2018.