Florence Green served as a mess steward in the Women's Royal Air Force
(NEWSER) - On Saturday night, the world lost its last known World War I service member. Though she never saw the front line, Florence Green, age 110, is thought to have been the last surviving veteran of the war. She was just two weeks shy of her 111th birthday, on Feb. 19, the BBC notes. Green joined the Women's Royal Air Force in 1918 at just 17 years old, two months before the armistice. She served food in the mess halls at RAF bases in England before leaving the service in 1919, after which she married and spent much of the rest of her life working at a hotel and volunteering with the Royal British Legion. More»
