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Claude Choules: His Autobiography: The Last of the Last


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    First Edition.

    24cm x 16cm. xiii, 147 pages, black and white illustrations, maps. Pictorial wrappers.

    “Claude Choules was 16 and on HMS Revenge in the North Sea when he had his first taste of hostile action. That was in November 1917. A year later, still on Revenge, Claude witnessed Admiral Beatty accept the surrender of the German Fleet. He also witness the Germans scuttling their ships at Scapa Flow in 1919. In 2009, aged 108, Claude became the world’s last living combatant of WWI.” (rear cover)

    . Fine Condition.

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