MILITARY PERSONNEL

Claude Choules

1901 - 2011

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Claude Stanley Choules (; 3 March 1901 – 5 May 2011) was a British-born military serviceman from Pershore, Worcestershire, who at the time of his death was the oldest combat veteran of the First World War from England, having served with the Royal Navy from 1915 until 1926. After having emigrated to Australia he served with the Royal Australian Navy, from 1926 until 1956, as a chief petty officer and was a naturalised Australian citizen. He was the last surviving military witness to the scuttling of the German fleet in Scapa Flow in 1919 and the last surviving veteran to have served in both world wars. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Claude Choules has received more than 486,467 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Claude Choules is the 1,267th most popular military personnel (down from 1,241st in 2019), the 2,161st most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 2,370th in 2019) and the 55th most popular British Military Personnel.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Claude Choules ranks 1,267 out of 2,058. Before him are Holland Smith, Karl Decker, Antonio Luna, Vitalian, Movses Silikyan, and Illus. After him are Orde Wingate, J. F. C. Fuller, Josef Kammhuber, Abdul Haris Nasution, Max Wünsche, and Johann Peter Beaulieu.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1901, Claude Choules ranks 145. Before him are Lanza del Vasto, Jean-Joseph Rabearivelo, Mario Scelba, Yuliya Solntseva, Arleigh Burke, and Rose Ausländer. After him are Umberto Caligaris, Hans Erich Nossack, Frank Zamboni, Fernando Tambroni, Sergei Tumansky, and Otto Ambros. Among people deceased in 2011, Claude Choules ranks 152. Before him are Jackie Cooper, Bora Kostić, Sándor Képíró, Ali-Reza Pahlavi, Norio Ohga, and Kurt Sanderling. After him are Sven Tumba, Bernd Eichinger, Koichi Tohei, Bo Carpelan, Thor Vilhjálmsson, and Sena Jurinac.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Claude Choules ranks 2,161 out of 8,785. Before him are John Leslie (1766), Edmund Gunter (1581), Maryam d'Abo (1960), Steve Jones (1955), Charles Kingsley (1819), and Thomas Otway (1652). After him are Anthony Jenkinson (1529), J. F. C. Fuller (1878), Alexander Cambridge, 1st Earl of Athlone (1874), William Kingdon Clifford (1845), Angela Carter (1940), and Robert Burton (1577).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In United Kingdom

Among military personnels born in United Kingdom, Claude Choules ranks 55. Before him are John Burgoyne (1722), Claude Auchinleck (1884), Arthur Tedder, 1st Baron Tedder (1890), Bernard Freyberg, 1st Baron Freyberg (1889), Ronald Speirs (1920), and David Beatty, 1st Earl Beatty (1871). After him are J. F. C. Fuller (1878), John Paul Jones (1747), Gregor MacGregor (1786), David Stirling (1915), Edmund Ironside, 1st Baron Ironside (1880), and Sir William Congreve, 2nd Baronet (1772).

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