the last world war 1 vet died on 4 february 2012.
when did the last world war 1 vet die?
4 february 2012
this is a list of the last world war i veterans to die by country. the last living veteran of world war i was florence green, a british citizen who served in the allied armed forces, and who died 4 february 2012, aged 110. the last combat veteran was claude choules who served in the british royal navy (and later the royal australian navy) and died 5 may 2011, aged 110. the last veteran who served in the trenches was harry patch (british army) who died on 25 july 2009, aged 111. the last central powers veteran, franz künstler of austria-hungary, died on 27 may 2008 at the age of 107.
list of last world war i veterans by country
a special section of șăineanu's research in the same area was dedicated to comparative mythology. his contributions have led folklorist linda dégh to deem him "one of the pioneers in classifying folktales according to their types". this method was employed in "basmele române", whose content was structured into both types and "cycles". in "basmele române", arguing in favor of applying the principles introduced by hasdeu, șăineanu analyzed romanian folktales in their native and national content. nevertheless, he followed the conclusions of other folklorists on the universality of folklore, suggesting that the world's entire folkloric literature was structured into some tens of groups. with "studii folclorice", the researcher tested an anthropological investigation into the characteristics and supposed origins of each myth, in particular "meșterul manole", "baba dochia" and the "iele" creatures. in "les rites de la construction", șăineanu focused on a set of ballads with a similar construction- and immurement-related subject, present throughout east central or eastern europe, likening the romanian "meșterul manole" legend to its counterparts in serbian ("zidanje skadra"), hungarian ("kőműves kelemen") and other regional folkloric traditions. according to critics john neubauer and marcel cornis-pope, he was "the first author to attempt a synthetic treatment of the immurement motif in eastern europe". the two also note that șăineanu, who believed that the motif reached its potential significance only in eastern europe, stayed clear of the controversy surrounding the geographic and ethnic sources of the ballad (while specifying his belief that the hungarian version followed a romanian source), and discussed "zidanje skadra" and "meșterul manole" as the most crafted variants of the myth.
lazăr șăineanu