MILITARY PERSONNEL

Frank Buckles

1901 - 2011

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Frank Woodruff Buckles (born Wood Buckles, February 1, 1901 – February 27, 2011) was a United States Army corporal and the last surviving American military veteran of World War I. He enlisted in the U.S. Army in 1917 aged 16 and served with a detachment from Fort Riley, driving ambulances and motorcycles near the front lines in Europe. During World War II, then aged 40, 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Frank Buckles has received more than 1,245,552 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Frank Buckles is the 1,903rd most popular military personnel (down from 1,585th in 2019), the 8,969th most popular biography from United States (down from 8,625th in 2019) and the 147th most popular American Military Personnel.

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  • 16

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  • 3.03

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Frank Buckles ranks 1,903 out of 2,058. Before him are Bakht Khan, Henry Wirz, Pierre Bosquet, Razi Mousavi, Carl Gustav Fleischer, and Moe Berg. After him are Anthony Wayne, John Harding, 1st Baron Harding of Petherton, Heinrich Hax, Lewis Armistead, Juan de Salcedo, and Nikolai Yevmenov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1901, Frank Buckles ranks 302. Before him are Inga Tidblad, Katri Vala, C. L. R. James, Richard Brauer, Aurora Mardiganian, and Hans Drakenberg. After him are Al LeConey, Mildred Wiley, Sven Utterström, Malcolm MacDonald, Henry Eyring, and Paul Fritsch. Among people deceased in 2011, Frank Buckles ranks 386. Before him are David Hess, Kjell Johansson, Juliano Mer-Khamis, Marianna Nagy, Loleatta Holloway, and Assar Rönnlund. After him are Aleksei Mamykin, Dolores Fuller, Ray Bryant, Ingrid Sandahl, Yozhef Betsa, and Lennart Magnusson.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Frank Buckles ranks 8,969 out of 20,380. Before him are John Morton (1725), Valerie Harper (1939), Alberta Hunter (1895), John Canfield Spencer (1788), Martin Klebba (1969), and Iris Chang (1968). After him are Marc Cherry (1962), Charles Lloyd (1938), Gary Holt (1964), Tammy Grimes (1934), Judith O'Dea (1945), and Nicky Jam (1981).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In United States

Among military personnels born in United States, Frank Buckles ranks 147. Before him are Raymond T. Odierno (1954), Robert L. Eichelberger (1886), Edmund Kirby Smith (1824), Chesty Puller (1898), Lloyd Fredendall (1883), and Moe Berg (1902). After him are Anthony Wayne (1745), Lewis Armistead (1817), John Abizaid (1951), James Stockdale (1923), Eddie Rickenbacker (1890), and Christy Mathewson (1880).

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