Claude Choules

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Claude Stanley Choules (3 March 1901 – 5 May 2011) was an English-born military serviceman from Perth, Western Australia, who at the time of his death was the nation's oldest war veteran, having served with the Royal Navy from 1915 to 1926.

He served with the Royal Australian Navy from 1926 to 1956 as a Chief Petty Officer and was a naturalised Australian citizen.

He was the last living soldier to have served in both world wars and was the last surviving military witness to the German fleet's scuttling in Scapa Flow in 1919.

He was the third-oldest recognised military veteran in the country and the oldest living man in Australia at the time of his death.

He was the world's seventh-oldest man.

Following Stanley Lucas's death on June 21, Choules became the nation's oldest man born in the United Kingdom.

Choules died at the age of 110 years and 63 days.

He had been the oldest British-born man; after his death, Reverend Reginald Dean was lauded;

The landing ship HMAS Choules was named after him in December 2011, only the second Royal Australian Navy vessel named after a sailor.

Early life

Claude Choules was born in Pershore, Worcestershire, on March 3rd, 1901, and he was raised in Wyre Piddle, Worcestershire. Claude was one of seven children, but two of them died in early childhood, according to Harry and Madeline (née Winn, also known as Madge). Douglas (born 1893), Henry Leslie (known as Leslie, 1894), Phyllis (born 1899), and Madge Gwendoline (known as Gwendoline, 1904). When Claude was five, he returned to the stage as an actor, and his older brothers were raised by his father. Claude was told that she had died and he never saw her again at the time of his mother's divorce from the family. Phyllis, his older brother, was reunited with a paternal uncle, while younger sister Gwendoline was adopted by a paternal aunt who lived in Pewsey, Wiltshire, although his younger sister Gwendoline was born in Pewsey, Wiltshire, according to his paternal aunt. Claude and his older brothers attended Pershore National Boys' School, but Douglas and Leslie immigrated to Western Australia in 1911.

Choules was 13 years old on the outbreak of the First World War, and the family received letters from Douglas and Leslie, who had joined the Australian Imperial Force and landed at Anzac Cove during the Gallipoli Campaign. Choules was able to leave school when he was 14 years old, but was refused to serve in the army as a bugler child because he was too young.

Personal life

Choules and his partner Ethel were married for 76 years until she died at the age of 98. Choules skipped the Armistice festivities because he was against war glorification. His autobiography The Last of the Last of the Last of the Last of the Last of the Last of the Last of the Last of the Last of the Last of the Last of the Last of the Last of the Last of the Last of the Last of the Last of the Last of the Last was first published in Perth in 2009, followed by an annotated version for UK readers in 2010.

Despite being nearly blind and deaf, he was still smiling and gave a television interview on August 6, 2009, though he was not fully awake or deaf.

Daphne Choules-Edinger, Choules' daughter, reported in late April that his health was declining and he could no longer attend interviews. In March 2011, he marked his 110th birthday. He lived at Gracewood Hostel in Salter Point, a suburb of Perth, in the final years of his life.

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