[Deathwatch] Jack Davis, Britain's oldest World War I veteran, 108

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Britain's Oldest WWI Veteran Dies at 108
Mon Jul 21, 8:19 PM ET
	
LONDON - Jack Davis, believed to be Britain's oldest World War I
veteran, has died. He was 108.

Davis, who served with the 6th Battalion Duke of Cornwall Light
Infantry, died Sunday at a nursing home in Stoke Hammond, England.

Davis joined the army at the age of 19 and served in France and
Belgium. He fought in the July 1917 battle at Ypres.

"This war was the most disgusting and humiliating experience a man
could suffer," Davis said in a recent interview. "I remember there were
days we did not have a change of clothes and we had rats running around
us."

David recently met Prince Charles, the commander-in-chief of his old
regiment, at a reunion in London for WWI veterans.

"The prince of Wales felt incredibly honored to meet Mr. Davis and very
much enjoyed talking to him about his life," a spokesman for Charles
said Monday.

David was a member of the World War One Veterans Association, which now
has just 34 members. It said Davis had been the oldest British survivor
from the 1914-18 conflict.