THERE is no longer a living link with the Grand Fleet with the passing of the last WW1 warrior, sailor Claude Choules.The former senior rating has died in a nursing home in Australia – he emigrated in the mid-1920s – at the age of 110.
Mr Choules served in the Royal Navy for a decade, joining at the age of 14 in 1915 as a boy seaman.
He spent the last two years of the Great War serving with the dreadnought HMS Revenge at Scapa Flow – a largely monotonous existence, punctuated by exciting drills and exercises, and the occasional foray by the ‘castles of steel’ into the North Sea in search of the German Fleet.
