About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 34. Chapters: Fred Hale, Emma Verona Johnston, Frank Buckles, Walter Breuning, Frederica Sagor Maas, Moses Hardy, Edna Parker, Christian Mortensen, Eunice Sanborn, Gertrude Baines, Sarah Knauss, Elizabeth Bolden, Emma Tillman, Alphaeus Philemon Cole, Marie-Rose Mueller, Susie Gibson, Neva Morris, John Ingram McMorran, Mary Josephine Ray, George Johnson, Maggie Renfro, Onie Ponder, Ella Schuler, Leila Denmark, Daisey Bailey, Besse Cooper, Emma Carroll, Claire Cayot O'Rourke, Mississippi Winn, John Painter, Maude Farris-Luse, Beatrice Farve, Gertrude Noone, Martha Graham, Antonio Pierro, Charlotte Benkner, Lucy Hannah, Arbella Ewing, Catherine Hagel, Gladys Swetland, Bertha Fry, Mary Electa Bidwell, Walter H. Seward, Mamie Eva Keith, Delina Filkins, Benjamin Harrison Holcomb, Fannie Greenberg, Leona Tuttle, Leila Backman Shull, Laura Scales, Corinne Dixon Taylor, Ernest Pusey, Margaret Skeete, Wally Baker, Anne Christopher, Helen Stetter, Betsy Baker, Ettie Mae Greene, Marcella Humphrey, Virginia Muise, Mary Parr, Soledad Mexia, Mary Christian, Mary Marques. Excerpt: Frank Woodruff Buckles (born Wood Buckles; February 1, 1901 - February 27, 2011) was the last surviving American veteran of World War I. He enlisted in the United States Army in 1917 and served with a detachment from Fort Riley, driving ambulances and motorcycles near the front lines in Europe. During World War II, he was captured by Japanese forces while working in the shipping business, and spent three years in the Philippines as a civilian prisoner. After the war, Buckles married in San Francisco and moved to Gap View Farm near Charles Town, West Virginia. A widower at age 98, he worked on his farm until the age of 105. In his last years, he was Honorary Chairman of the World War I Memorial Foundation. As chairman, he advocated the establishment of a World War I mem...
