Frank Buckles
Frank Woodruff Buckles (born Wood Buckles, February 1, 1901 – February 27, 2011) was a corporal in the United States Army and the last surviving American military veteran of World War I. He enlisted in the U.S. Army in 1917 aged 16 and served with a detachment from Fort Riley, driving ambulances and motorcycles near the front lines in Europe. During World War II, then aged 40, he was captured by Japanese forces while working in the shipping business, and spent three years in the Philippines as a civilian prisoner.