John Babcock
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title:
John Babcock
text:
John Henry Foster Babcock was, at age 109, the last known surviving veteran of the Canadian military to have served in the First World War and, after the death of Harry Patch, was the conflict's oldest surviving veteran. Babcock first attempted to join the army at the age of fifteen, but was turned down and sent to work in Halifax until he was placed in the Young Soldiers Battalion in August 1917. Babcock was then transferred to the United Kingdom, where he continued his training until the end o
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Canadian World War I veteran (1900–2010)
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Babcock
date created:
2007-03-15T23:14:48Z
date modified:
2024-09-03T04:54:11Z
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