Arthur Halestrap
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| Born | 8 September 1898 Légion d'honneur |
Arthur Halestrap
MBE (8 September 1898 – 1 April 2004) was one of the last surviving British soldiers of World War I
.
He was born in
Titanic disaster.[1] At this time he was living in Black Notley
in Essex with his wife Gladys Gwendoline.
In the
Allied Control Commission in Germany, then as a member of the Diplomatic Wireless Service
. He retired in 1970.
In 1963, Halestrap was appointed as a Member of The
Légion d'honneur
in 1988.
He continued to appear on television documentaries into his extremely old age. In 2003, aged 105, he was the only British veteran of the First World War to attend the
The Last Tommy
on BBC 1 in 2005.
Arthur Halestrap died in
Kings Sutton, Northamptonshire
, where he had moved to in the 1960s.