Veteran

She didn't serve on the front lines but she did put in her time with the Women's Royal Air Force. But when she passed on 2/4/12, Florence Green, at the age of 110, was the last known surviving WWI veteran.   It is seen as fitting that the last veteran would be a female. After all, wars are not confined to the front lines, they affect life everywhere. It's a collective experience.

The service trained women to work as mechanics, drivers and in other jobs to free men for front-line duty. Green went to work as a steward in the officers' mess, first at the Narborough airdrome and then at RAF Marham in eastern England, and was serving there when the war ended.

Green's husband died in 1970. She is survived by two daughters, a son and several grandchildren and great-grandchildren. The date of her funeral was not immediately known, but Air Force personnel will attend and the RAF Association will provide a bugler and a Union Jack to drape on the coffin