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The last living link to WWI combat (Australia)

As former comrades have passed away, history has closed in on Claude Choules, the 108-year-old who is now Britain's last witness to combat in World War I.

Claude resides on the other side of the world in a nursing home in the suburbs of Perth, Western Australia.

And though his body is failing - he is blind and partially deaf - he still possesses a lively mind.

Read entire article at BBC