WWI Vet Now World's Oldest Man

There are so few veterans of the First World War left that whenever there's news about one of them, I like to share. Today the folks at Guinness World Records announced that a WWI Vet, Britain's Henry Allingham, aged 113, is now officially the oldest person alive.

Mr. Allingham is one of only two surviving British WWI vets and is the only living participant from the Battle of Jutland, the biggest naval battle of World War I and the only time in history that large fleets of Battleships faced off against one another in direct combat.

Allingham joined the Royal Naval Air Service in 1915, a year before Jutland. Later in life he became an advocate WWI vets, encouraging everyone to remember their sacrifice in what was thought at the time to be the "war to end all wars".