Last WWI combat veteran Claude Choules dies aged 110

From the BBC

"The world's last known combat veteran of World War I, Claude Choules, has died in Australia aged 110.

Known to his comrades as Chuckles, British-born Mr Choules joined the Royal Navy at 15 and went on to serve on HMS Revenge."

The number of people with living memory of the war must be dwindling too, it will slip from living memory within 10-15 years i suspect as the 19th century recently did though of course WW1 is an event which remains vivid in our collective memory thanks to the advent of 20th century media technologies.