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One of Britain's Last WWI Vets Dies at 109 (AP)

 

File photograph of April 8, 2004 shows British Black Watch veteran Alfred Anderson who died Monday Nov. 21, 2005 aged 109 years old. Anderson is the last surviving soldier to have heard the guns fall silent along the Western Front during the spontaneous 'Christmas Truce' of World War I. More than 80 years after the war, Anderson recalled the 'eerie sound of silence' as shooting stopped and soldiers clambered from trenches to greet one another on Dec. 25, 1914.  (AP Photo/Andrew Milligan/PA)AP - Alfred Anderson, the last surviving soldier to have heard the guns fall silent along the Western Front during the spontaneous "Christmas Truce" of World War I, died Monday at age 109. More than 80 years after the war, Anderson recalled the "eerie sound of silence" as shooting stopped and soldiers clambered from trenches to greet one another Dec. 25, 1914.




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