Harry Richard Landis

Harry Richard Landis

Infobox Military Person
name = Harry Richard Landis
born = birth date|1899|12|12
died = death date|2008|2|4


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placeofbirth= Miller Township, Missouri, United States
placeofdeath= Sun City Center, Florida
allegiance = American
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serviceyears= October – November 1918
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battles = World War I
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Harry Richard Landis (December 12 1899 – February 4 2008) [ [http://www2.tbo.com/content/2008/feb/06/1-known-wwi-veteran-left-after-sun-city-center-man/?news-breaking 1 Known WWI Veteran Left After Bay Area Man Dies] )] was, at age 108, the older of the last two American First World War veterans. [ [http://www.wtol.com/global/story.asp?s=7528767 1 of last U.S. World War I vets dies in Ohio at age 109] ] The final one is Frank Buckles. John Babcock, a naturalized American, served in the Canadian Army during the war, and also survived Landis.

Landis joined the United States Army in October 1918, serving his time in Missouri. He did not complete basic training due to the war ending less than a month later. His experience of mopping the floor at an army hospital included exposure to the Spanish flu, which was actually the leading cause of death worldwide in the year 1918, killing about 75 million people. [ [http://www.talkingproud.us/HistoryWWIVets.html America's last veterans of the "Great War"] ]

Landis was born to Jason and Alice Landis in Miller Township, Marion County, Missouri, between Hannibal and Palmyra, where he grew up on the family farm. He was the seventh of eight children. His last residence was in a Sun City Center, Florida nursing home, where he cared for his 100-year-old wife.

ee also

* Veterans of the First World War who died in 2008

References

External links

* [http://www.theledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070414/NEWS/704140455/1039 Interview from The Ledger Online]


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