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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 1,162,005 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Frank Buckles is the 1,588th most popular military personnel (down from 1,375th in 2019), the 8,643rd most popular biography from United States (down from 7,139th in 2019) and the 142nd most popular American Military Personnel.

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  • 15

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Frank Buckles ranks 1,588 out of 1,468. Before him are Chesty Puller, Stephen Decatur, Sam Manekshaw, Keith Park, Mahamat Déby, and Arnold Jackson. After him are Anthony Wayne, Daniel Harvey Hill, Thomas Picton, Julian Byng, 1st Viscount Byng of Vimy, Albert Ball, and Joseph Dunford.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1901, Frank Buckles ranks 279. Before him are Paul Fritsch, Richard Brauer, C. L. R. James, Alexis Chantraine, Luis Brunetto, and Katri Vala. After him are Ben Lyon, Ivan Petrovsky, Paolo Mazza, Brian Donlevy, Whittaker Chambers, and Mildred Wiley. Among people deceased in 2011, Frank Buckles ranks 356. Before him are Luigi Carpaneda, Barbara Kent, Yozhef Betsa, Mohamed Bouazizi, Ray Bryant, and Ragnhild Hveger. After him are Ed Macauley, David Bedford, Paul Motian, Jagjit Singh, Juliano Mer-Khamis, and Filoimea Telito.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Frank Buckles ranks 8,643 out of 18,182. Before him are Meg Cabot (1967), Dickey Betts (1943), Alan Eustace (1957), Lori Petty (1963), James Broderick (1927), and Phil Alden Robinson (1950). After him are Joe Flanigan (1967), Kelly Clarkson (1982), Mary Harrison McKee (1858), Stephanie Zimbalist (1956), Mimi Kennedy (1948), and Dennis Christopher (1955).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In United States

Among military personnels born in United States, Frank Buckles ranks 142. Before him are John Abizaid (1951), John C. Pemberton (1814), Christy Mathewson (1880), William Rosecrans (1819), Chesty Puller (1898), and Stephen Decatur (1779). After him are Anthony Wayne (1745), Daniel Harvey Hill (1821), Joseph Dunford (1955), Thomas C. Hart (1877), Willis Augustus Lee (1888), and John Schofield (1831).

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