Does Britains last WWI veteran shuns Remembrance Day (AFP)?
SYDNEY — Britain’s last surviving World War I veteran shunned Remembrance Day commemorations on Wednesday because he was against the glorification of war, his family was reported as saying. Claude Choules, 108, who lives in a nursing home in Perth, Australia, became Britain’s sole survivor from the 1914-1918 war, following the death of 111-year-old fellow veteran Harry Patch in June. Choules served on HMS Revenge during a 41-year naval career that spanned both world wars, witnessing the surrender of the German Imperial Navy in 1918 and the scuttling of the fleet in Scapa Flow. But his daughter Daphne Edinger said Choules had been scarred by his experiences and chose not to celebrate the Armistice or other veterans’ days. “After my father left the navy, he never went to ANZAC Day again,” Edinger told Fairfax media, referring to the day Australians and New Zealanders remember their war dead. “He didn’t think we should glorify war.” Choules, known to his Navy comrades as “Chuckles”, lied
