Engagement
|
Starting date
|
Service
|
Name
|
Lifespan
|
Notes
|
Battle of Tsushima
|
27 May 1905
|
Imperial Japanese Navy
|
Okura Meiji
|
1884–1982
|
Served on
Asama.
|
Imperial Russian Navy
|
Jerzy Wołkowicki
|
1883–1983
|
Served on
Imperator Nikolai I.
|
Battle of Yangxia
|
18 October 1911
|
Tongmenghui Revolutionary Army
|
Yu Yuzhi
|
1889–1993
|
[154]
|
Battle of Sciara Sciatt
|
23 October 1911
|
Italian Royal Army
|
Luigi Gilardi
|
1892–1993
|
[155]
|
Battle of Misrata
|
16 June 1912
|
Guido Bellucci
|
1890–1994
|
[156]
[157]
|
Battle of Coyotepe Hill
|
3 October 1912
|
Liberal Party revolutionaries
|
José Pánfilo Ramos Sevilla Pánfilo
|
1893–2001
|
[158]
|
First
Dogfight
|
30 November 1913
|
Carrancistas
|
Dean Ivan Lamb
|
1886–1955
|
Mercenary pilot hired to fly for General
Benjamín G. Hill's forces.
|
Battle of the Frontiers
|
7 August 1914
|
French Army
|
Lazare Ponticelli
|
1897–2008
|
Battle of Halen
|
12 August 1914
|
Belgian Army
|
Arsène Joseph Becuwe [
nl]
|
1891–1992
|
Battle of Mons
|
23 August 1914
|
British Army
|
James Davidson
|
1897–1999
|
BEF.
[159]
|
Battle of Le Cateau
|
26 August 1914
|
Michael Lally
|
1894–1999
|
BEF.
[160]
[161]
[162]
|
Siege of Tsingtao
|
27 August 1914
|
Imperial German Navy
|
Paul Kley
|
1894–1992
|
Seebataillon.
[163]
[164]
[165]
|
First Battle of the Marne
|
6 September 1914
|
French Army
|
Raymond Abescat
|
1891–2001
|
Battle of Zanzibar
|
20 Sept 1914
|
British Royal Navy
|
Leonard Claude Lawrance
|
1890–1982
|
Served on
HMS Pegasus.
[166]
|
First Battle of Ypres
|
19 October 1914
|
British Army
|
William Elder
|
1897–2005
|
BEF.
[167]
[168]
[169]
|
Battle of Tanga
|
3 November 1914
|
German East African colonial Army
|
Malonde Maseru
|
1894–1996
|
Schutztruppe.
[170]
[171]
|
Battle of Cocos
|
9 November 1914
|
Australian Royal Navy
|
Sidney Sullivan
|
1896–1997
|
Served on
HMAS Sydney.
[172]
[173]
|
Imperial German Navy
|
Heyo Aden-Emden
|
1890–1989
|
Served on
SMS Emden.
[174]
|
Gallipoli Campaign
|
17 February 1915
|
Australian Army
|
Alec Campbell
|
1899–2002
|
ANZAC.
[175]
|
British Army
|
Percy Goring
|
1894–2001
|
MEF.
[176]
[177]
|
French Army
|
Ernest Stocanne
|
1894–1999
|
CEO.
[178]
[179]
|
French Navy
|
Pierre L'Huillier
|
1895–1998
|
Served on the battleship
Saint Louis.
[180]
|
Ottoman Army
|
Adil Şahin
|
1898–1998
|
III Corps. Fought at the
Landing at Anzac Cove.
[181]
[182]
|
British Royal Navy
|
John "Jack" Walter Gearing
|
1894–1997
|
Served on
HMS Theseus.
[183]
|
New Zealand Army
|
Alfred Douglas Dibley
|
1896–1997
|
ANZAC.
[184]
|
Australian Royal Navy
|
Charles George Suckling
|
1893–1984
|
Served on
HMAS AE2.
[185]
|
Battle of Neuve Chapelle
|
10 March 1915
|
British Army
|
Alfred Anderson
|
1896–2005
|
BEF. Last known participant of the
Christmas truce.
|
Second Battle of Ypres
|
2 April 1915
|
William Elder
|
1897–2005
|
BEF.
[167]
[168]
[169]
|
First Battle of the Isonzo
|
23 June 1915
|
Italian Royal Army
|
Carlo Orelli
|
1894–2005
|
Landing at Suvla Bay
|
6 August 1915
|
British Army
|
Robert Richard Barron
|
1895–1999
|
MEF.
[186]
|
Battle of the Nek
|
7 August 1915
|
Australian Army
|
Leonard "Len" Hall
|
1897–1999
|
ANZAC.
[187]
[188]
[189]
|
Battle of Loos
|
25 September 1915
|
British Army
|
Alfred Anderson
|
1896–2005
|
Serbian army's retreat through Albania
|
25 November 1915
|
Serbian Army
|
Aleksa Radovanović
|
1900–2004
|
|
Battle of Verdun
|
21 February 1916
|
French Army
|
René Marie-Martial Moreau
|
1897–2005
|
[190]
|
Battle of Columbus
|
9 March 1916
|
Villistas
|
Juan Carlos Caballero Vega
|
1900–2010
|
División del Norte.
[191]
|
Battle of Jutland
|
31 May 1916
|
British Royal Navy
|
Henry Allingham
|
1896–2009
|
Royal Naval Air Service. Served as a seaplane mechanic on the
HMT Kingfisher.
|
Henry St John Fancourt
|
1900–2004
|
Served on
HMS Princess Royal
|
Imperial German Navy
|
Willy Schinkel
|
1896–2002
|
Served on
SMS Kaiser.
[192]
|
Storming of Fort Vaux
|
1 June 1916
|
French Army
|
Ferdinand Viviès
|
1895–1995
|
[193]
|
Battle of the Somme
|
1 July 1916
|
Claude-Marie Boucaud [
fr]
|
1895–2005
|
[190]
|
British Army
|
Albert Marshall
|
1897–2005
|
[194]
|
Battle of Delville Wood
|
14 July 1916
|
South African Army
|
Joeseph Samuels
|
1897–1998
|
SAOEF.
[195]
|
Battle of Pozières
|
23 July 1916
|
Australian Army
|
Marcel Caux
|
1899–2004
|
I ANZAC Corps
|
Battle of Bucharest
|
27 November 1916
|
Romanian Army
|
Titus Gârbea [
ro]
|
1893–1998
|
[196]
[197]
|
First Battle of Gaza
|
26 March 1917
|
Australian Army
|
McRae Archibald Cameron
|
1898–1997
|
I ANZAC Corps.
ANZAC Mounted Division.
[198]
|
Bloody April
|
1 April 1917
|
British Army
|
Norman Baillie Lovemore
|
1895–1993
|
Royal Flying Corps.
[199]
|
Battle of Arras
|
9 April 1917
|
Albert Marshall
|
1897–2005
|
BEF.
|
Battle of Vimy Ridge
|
Alfred Finnigan
|
1896–2005
|
BEF.
|
Canadian Army
|
Clifford Holliday
|
1898–2004
|
CEF.
[200]
[201]
[202]
|
Battle of Chemin des Dames
|
16 April 1917
|
French Army
|
Louis de Cazenave
|
1897–2008
|
Second Battle of Gaza
|
17 April 1917
|
Australian Army
|
McRae Archibald Cameron
|
1898–1997
|
I ANZAC Corps. ANZAC Mounted Division.
[198]
|
Battle of Messines
|
7 June 1917
|
Edward Smout
|
1898–2004
|
RAAMC.
|
New Zealand Army
|
Bright Williams
|
1897–2003
|
NZEF.
[203]
|
Battle of Zborov
|
1 July 1917
|
Imperial Russian Army
|
Alois Vocásek
|
1896–2003
|
Czechoslovak Legion.
|
Battle of Passchendaele
|
31 July 1917
|
British Army
|
Harry Patch
|
1898–2009
|
BEF.
[204]
|
New Zealand Army
|
Bright Williams
|
1897–2003
|
NZEF.
[203]
|
Battle of Mărășești
|
6 August 1917
|
Romanian Army
|
Lăcătușu Dumitrașcu [
ro]
|
1891–1999
|
[205]
|
Third Battle of Oituz
|
8 August 1917
|
Battle of Caporetto
|
24 October 1917
|
Italian Royal Army
|
Delfino Borroni
|
1898–2008
|
Battle of Beersheba
|
31 October 1917
|
British Army
|
Jasper Cecil Hankinson
|
1896–2004
|
EEF.
[206]
|
Australian Army
|
Leonard "Len" Hall
|
1897–1999
|
EEF.
Desert Mounted Corps. Last participant of the
Light Horse charge.
[187]
[188]
[189]
|
Third Battle of Gaza
|
1 November 1917
|
Albert Ernest Whitmore
|
1899–2002
|
EEF. Last
Australian Light Horse veteran.
[207]
[208]
|
Battle of Hareira and Sheria
|
6 November 1917
|
British Army
|
Harold Judd
|
1898–1998
|
EEF.
[209]
|
Charge at Huj
|
8 November 1917
|
Darcy Harold Jones
|
1896–2000
|
EEF.
[210]
[211]
[212]
|
Battle of Monte Grappa
|
13 November 1917
|
Italian Royal Army
|
Lazare Ponticelli
|
1897–2008
|
Battle of Jerusalem
|
17 November 1917
|
British Army
|
Jasper Cecil Hankinson
|
1896–2004
|
EEF.
[206]
|
Australian Army
|
Albert Ernest Whitmore
|
1899–2002
|
EEF. Desert Mounted Corps.
[207]
[208]
|
Battle of Cambrai
|
20 November 1917
|
British Army
|
Albert Marshall
|
1897–2005
|
BEF.
|
Norman Margrave Dillon
|
1896–1997
|
Tank Corps.
[213]
[214]
|
Battle of Kruty
|
29/ 30 January 1918
|
Ukrainian People's Army
|
Matthew Danyluk [
uk]
|
1892–1994
|
Ice March
|
9 February 1918
|
Volunteer Army
|
Boris Mikhailovich Ivanov [
ru]
|
1895–1993
|
Steppe March
|
25 February 1918
|
Don Army
|
Nikolai Mikhailovich Pokhlebin
|
1901–1991
|
[215]
|
Battle of the Lys
|
7 April 1918
|
Portuguese Army
|
José Maria Hermano Baptista [
pt]
|
1895–2002
|
CEP.
|
Battle of Tampere
|
21 April 1918
|
Finnish White Army
|
Lauri Nurminen
|
1906–2009
|
Zeebrugge Raid
|
23 April 1918
|
British Royal Navy
|
Sidney Hesse
|
1899–2002
|
Served on
HMS Phoebe.
[216]
[217]
|
Alfred Ambrose Hutchinson
|
1895–2002
|
Royal Marines. Served on
HMS Iris II.
[218]
|
Battle of Vyborg
|
21 April 1918
|
Finnish Red Army
|
Aarne Arvonen
|
1897–2009
|
Second Battle of Jordan
|
30 April 1918
|
Australian Army
|
Albert Ernest Whitmore
|
1899–2002
|
EEF. Desert Mounted Corps.
[207]
[208]
|
Battle of Sardarabad
|
22 May 1918
|
Armenian Army
|
Senekerim "Sam" Arakelian
|
1902–2000
|
[219]
|
Third Battle of the Aisne
|
27 May 1918
|
French Army
|
Ferdinand Gilson [
fr]
|
1898–2006
|
[220]
[221]
[222]
|
British Army
|
Frank S. Deane
|
1899–2002
|
BEF.
[223]
|
Battle of Moreuil Wood
|
30 May 1918
|
Canadian Army
|
Frank E. Richmond
|
1896–1996
|
CEF.
[224]
|
Battle of Belleau Wood
|
1 June 1918
|
United States Marine Corps
|
William Eugene "Gene" Lee
|
1899–2004
|
5th Marine Regiment.
[225]
[226]
|
Kuban Offensive
|
9 June 1918
|
Volunteer Army
|
Boris Vitalyevich Pryanishnikov [
ru]
|
1902–2002
|
Second Battle of the Piave River
|
15 June 1918
|
Austro-Hungarian Army
|
Franz Künstler
|
1900–2008
|
[227]
|
Italian Royal Army
|
Domenico De Cristofaro
|
1899–2006
|
[228]
|
Second Battle of the Marne
|
15 July 1918
|
French Army
|
Jean Grelaud
|
1898–2007
|
Imperial German Army
|
Charles Kuentz
|
1897–2005
|
Battle of Amiens
|
8 August 1918
|
Australian Army
|
Peter Casserly
|
1898–2005
|
AIF.
|
Second Battle of the Somme
|
21 August 1918
|
French Army
|
Ferdinand Gilson [
fr]
|
[220]
[221]
[222]
|
Australian Army
|
Edward "Ted" Rayns
|
1899–2004
|
Australian Corps.
[169]
|
Battle of Saint-Mihiel
|
12 September 1918
|
United States Army
|
Antonio Pierro
|
1896–2007
|
82nd Infantry Division
[229]
|
Capture of Damascus
|
1 October 1918
|
Australian Army
|
Albert Ernest Whitmore
|
1899–2002
|
EEF. Desert Mounted Corps.
[207]
[208]
|
Battle of Vittorio Veneto
|
3 November 1918
|
Italian Royal Army
|
Francesco Domenico Chiarello
|
1898–2008
|
Capture of Le Quesnoy
|
4 November 1918
|
New Zealand Army
|
Lawrence Morris Blyth
|
1895–2001
|
NZEF.
[230]
|
Soloheadbeg Ambush
|
21 January 1919
|
Irish Republican Army
|
Pádraig Mac Cormaic
[231]
|
1894–1982
|
[232]
|
Vilna offensive
|
16 April 1919
|
Polish Army
|
Walenty Florysiak
|
1898–2004
|
[233]
|
Battle of Warsaw
|
12 August 1920
|
Józef Kowalski
|
1900–2013
|
Battle of Radzymin
|
13 August 1920
|
Witold Bublewski [
pl]
|
1904–2007
|
Battle of Komarów
|
30 August 1920
|
Józef Kowalski
|
1900–2013
|
Kilmichael Ambush
|
28 November 1920
|
Irish Republican Army
|
Edward "Ned" Young
|
1892–1989
|
[234]
|
Royal Irish Constabulary
|
Frederick Henry Forde
|
1896–1941
|
Only RIC survivor of the ambush.
[235]
[236]
|
Second Battle of İnönü
|
23 March 1921
|
Turkish Army
|
Veysel Turan
|
1901–2007
|
Battle of Sakarya
|
23 August 1921
|
Yakup Satar
|
1898–2008
|
[237]
[238]
|
Great Offensive
|
26 August 1922
|
Mustafa Şekip Birgöl
|
1903–2008
|
[239]
|
January 28 incident
|
28 January 1932
|
Chinese Army
|
Huang Shengyong
|
1905–2017
|
[240]
[241]
|
Battle of Boquerón
|
7 September 1932
|
Paraguayan Army
|
Gabino Ayala
|
1913–2014
|
[242]
|
Long March
|
16 October 1934
|
Chinese Red Army
|
Tu Tongjin
|
1914–2023
|
[243]
|
Siege of the Montaña barracks
|
18 July 1936
|
Spanish Republican Army
|
Bibiano Morcillo
|
1915–2012
|
[244]
[245]
|
Siege of the Alcázar
|
21 July 1936
|
Nationalist Army
|
Federico Fuentes Gómez de Salazar
|
1918–2018
|
[246]
|
Battle of El Mazuco
|
6 September 1937
|
Spanish Republican militia
|
Antonio Batalla
|
1919–2018
|
Unified Socialist Youth.
[247]
[248]
|
Defense of Sihang Warehouse
|
26 October 1937
|
Chinese Army
|
Yang Yangzheng
|
1914–2010
|
Last of the "800 Heroes".
[249]
[250]
|
USS Panay incident
|
12 December 1937
|
Imperial Japanese Navy
|
Kaname Harada
|
1916–2016
|
Naval Air Service.
|
United States Navy
|
Fon Huffman
|
1913–2008
|
Served on
USS Panay.
|
Battle of Cape Palos
|
5 March 1938
|
Nationalist Navy
|
Manuel Aneiros Saavedra
|
1917–2020
|
Served on
Baleares.
[251]
[252]
|
Battle of Cape Machichaco
|
Basque Auxiliary Navy
|
Juan Azkarate
|
1922–2019
|
Served on
Nabarra. Last survivor of the Basque Auxiliary Navy.
[253]
[254]
[255]
|
Battle of Westerplatte
|
1 September 1939
|
Polish Army
|
Ignacy Skowron [
pl]
|
1915–2012
|
Battle of Mikołów
|
Franciszek Grzegorzek
|
1919?–2014
|
[256]
|
Battle of the River Plate
|
13 December 1939
|
New Zealand Royal Navy
|
John Richard Thomson
|
1922?–2021
|
Served on
HMNZS Achilles.
[257]
[258]
|
British Royal Navy
|
Basil Arthur Trott
|
1919–2021
|
Served on
HMS Exeter.
[259]
[260]
|
German Navy
|
Hans Eubel
|
1916–2017
|
Served on
Admiral Graf Spee.
[261]
|
Battle for The Hague
|
10 May 1940
|
Dutch Royal Air Force
|
Jan Linzel
|
1915–2019
|
[262]
[263]
|
Battle of Rotterdam
|
Dutch Royal Navy
|
William "Bill" Ramakers
|
1922–2018
|
Last
marine.
[264]
[265]
|
Battle of the Afsluitdijk
|
12 May 1940
|
Dutch Royal Army
|
Roelof Korporaal
|
1919–2014
|
[266]
[267]
|
Battle of Britain
|
10 July 1940
|
British Royal Air Force
|
John Hemingway
|
1919
|
Last pilot.
|
Paul Farnes
|
1918–2020
|
Last ace.
[268]
|
Capture of Kufra
|
31 January 1941
|
Free French Army
|
Daniel Paul Mathurin Nevot
|
1920–2019
|
[269]
[270]
|
Battle of the Denmark Strait
|
24 May 1941
|
British Royal Navy
|
Ted Briggs
|
1923–2008
|
Served on
HMS Hood.
[271]
|
German Navy
|
Bernhard Heuer
|
1922–2018
|
Served on
Bismarck.
[272]
|
Sinking of the Bismarck
|
26 May 1941
|
Attack on Pearl Harbor
|
7 December 1941
|
Imperial Japanese Navy
|
Kaname Harada
|
1916–2016
|
Naval Air Service. Last pilot.
[273]
|
United States Navy
|
Lou Conter
|
1921–2024
|
Last surviving crew member of the
USS Arizona
[274]
|
Raid on Alexandria
|
19 December 1941
|
Italian Royal Navy
|
Emilio Bianchi
|
1912–2015
|
[275]
|
Battle of Pasir Panjang
|
12 February 1942
|
British Malayan Army
|
Ujang Mormin
|
1920–2021
|
[276]
|
Doolittle Raid
|
18 April 1942
|
United States Army Air Forces
|
Richard E. Cole
|
1915–2019
|
17th Bombardment Group.
[277]
|
Defense of Pavlov's House
|
27 September 1942
|
Soviet Army
|
Kamoljon Turgunov
|
1921–2015
|
[278]
|
Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
|
19 April 1943
|
Jewish Combat Organization
|
Aliza Melamed Vitis-Shomron
|
1928
|
Last participant.
[279]
|
Leon Kopelman
|
1924–2021
|
Last combatant.
[280]
|
Operation Chastise
|
16 May 1943
|
British Royal Air Force
|
Johnny Johnson
|
1921–2022
|
[281]
|
Operation Jaywick
|
26 September 1943
|
Australian Royal Navy
|
Mostyn "Moss" Berryman
|
1923–2020
|
Z Special Unit.
[282]
|
Battle of Peleliu
|
15 September 1944
|
Imperial Japanese Army
|
Keiji Nagai
|
1921–2019
|
[283]
[284]
|
Liberation of Auschwitz concentration camp
|
27 January 1945
|
Soviet Army
|
Ivan Martynushkin
|
1923
|
[285]
|
Georgian uprising on Texel
|
20 May 1945
|
Georgian Legion rebels
|
Grigor Baindurashvili
|
1918?-2021
|
[
citation needed]
|