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7 April 2005 Charles Kuentz, age 108, died, Germany's last First World War veteran

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Charles Kuentz was interviewed by Tony Paterson when he was 107 years old in 2004. This photograph shows Charles Kuentz in 1916. It shows a youth of 19 wearing the Prussian spiked helmet, a heavy, grey field coat and sword that make up the full military dress uniform of the Kaiser's Imperial Army. His other photos show frightened-looking young m…


Charles Kuentz - Germany's last surviving veteran of the Great War

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Ninety years after he was conscripted, Germany's only surviving veteran of the Great War talks to Tony Paterson in Alsace. Charles Kuentz holds up a sepia photograph of himself taken in 1916. It shows a youth of 19 wearing the Prussian spiked helmet, a heavy, grey field coat and sword that make up the full military dress uniform of the Kaiser's Im…