last poilu, last doughboy

In recent WWI news:

CNN/AP: Lazare Ponticelli, France's last veteran of World War I, has died. He was 110.

ABC, CNN, White House propaganda office: Last surviving doughboy feted at White House.

and then there were five...

BBC reports on five remaining British veterans of WWI. Includes video interviews with Harry Patch, Claude Choules, William Stone, Syd Lucas, and Henry Allingham -- the last one 111 years old!! Tough old bastards, all of em.

BBC One will air a special program this Sunday (Remembrance Sunday, the 11th).