Claude Choules

Claude Choules in 1918. Choules was the last surviving veteran, of any nation, of the First World War, and also the last veteran to have served in both world wars. He died in 2011, just a few months after Frank Buckles, at the age of 110.

Original B&W photo.

Frank Buckles

Frank Buckles, the last US veteran of the First World War, in 1917, aged 16. He lied about his age to enlist, failing to join the marines and the navy, but succeeding with the army. He died in 2011, aged 110.


Original B&W photo.

John Babcock

John Babcock in 1920. He was the last Canadian veteran of the First World War, until his death in 2010 at the age of 109.


Original B&W photo.

Helen Keller

Helen Keller in 1904, on her graduation from Radcliffe College where, at the age of 24, she became the first deaf blind person to earn a Bachelor of Arts degree.


Original B&W photo.

Donald Campbell & Bluebird

Donald Campbell in his Bluebird K7, on Coniston Water, probably in or around 1967.


Original B&W photo.

Harry Houdini

Harry Houdini, shortly before he jumped off Harvard Bridge in Boston, Massachusetts into the frozen Charles River, on 8 April 1908.



Original B&W photo.

Angela Lansbury

Best known these days for the television series "Murder She Wrote, this is Angela Lansbury in 1948.


Original B&W photo.