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This is the list of World War I veterans who died in the year 2006.

== Veterans by country of service - 52 veterans ==
===Austria-Hungary (3 veterans)===

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|[[Maurice Floquet|Floquet, Maurice Noël]]||25 December 1894||10 November 2006 (111)||Thrice-wounded combat veteran of the [[Marne]], the [[Battle of the Somme (1916)|Somme]], [[Beausejour]] and [[Chemin des Dames]]. See entry.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.lemonde.fr/web/article/0,1-0@2-3226,36-833289@51-833247,0.html |title=Le doyen des poilus de la Grande Guerre s'éteint à l'âge de 
(111)| ans |language=French |date=2006-11-10 |accessdate=2007-01-22 |publisher=Le Monde}}</ref>
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|[[Gilson, Ferdinand]]||10 October 1898||25 February 2006 (107)||Conscripted 1917 into the 31e RI de Mamers. Fought as a Warrant Officer in Flanders with the 31eme RA. In the resistance in World War II.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://dersdesders.free.fr/bio_veterans/gilson.html |title=Ferdinand Gilson, Dernier poilu du Loiret, 14-18 |date=2006-02-26 |accessdate=2007-01-22 |languag(contracted; show full)
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|[[Eis, Eduard]]||22 March 1899||24 April 2006 (107)||Served on the Western Front as an army lorry driver.<ref name ="DD" />
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|[[Konrad Fuchs|Fuchs, Konrad]]||15 October 1897||13 November 2006 (109)||Conscripted into the army in 1916. Fought at the Battle of Chemin des Dames. Later a [[Catholic]] priest. See entry.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.bodanrueckgemeinden.de/fuchs108.htm |title=Pfarrer Konrad Fuchs 
(108)| Jahre alt |publisher=Bodanrückgemeinden |language=German |accessdate=2007-01-22}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?view=DETAILS&grid=&xml=/news/2006/12/04/db0403.xml |title=Father Konrad Fuchs (obituary) |publisher=Telegraph.co.uk |date=2006-12-04 |accessdate=2007-01-22}}</ref>
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|[[Klöpper, Hans]]||10 August 1900||10 September 2006 (106)||
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|[[Kenneth Cummins|Cummins, Kenneth Alfred Hugo]]||Midshipman, Royal Navy||3 March 1900||11 December 2006 (106)||Last surviving British naval officer. Also a World War II veteran. See entry.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/wiltshire/content/articles/2006/03/10/kenneth_cummins_feature.shtml |title=Wiltshire WW1 survivor celebrates 
(106)|th birthday |publisher=BBC |author=John Lyons |date=2006-03-10 |accessdate=2007-01-22}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;jsessionid=NC4EJID0GXQ4NQFIQMGSFGGAVCBQWIV0?view=DETAILS&grid=&xml=/news/2006/12/12/db1201.xml |title= Captain Kenneth Cummins (obituary) |publisher=Telegraph.co.uk |date=2006-12-12 |accessdate=2007-01-22}}</ref>
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|[[Rigby, Andrew]]||Private, 1st Lancashire Fusiliers||2 November 1900||9 June 2006 (105)||Last known Great War veteran of the Lancashire Fusiliers. Enlisted aged 14 and served for 3 months before real age discovered. Later a monk.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.worthingtoday.co.uk/ViewArticle2.aspx?SectionID=474&ArticleID=688301 |title=Happy 
(103)|rd! |publisher=Lancing News |date=2003-11-07 |accessdate=2007-01-22}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.worthingtoday.co.uk/ViewArticle2.aspx?SectionID=474&ArticleID=1241765 |title=Happy birthday Andrew! |publisher=Lancing News |date=2005-11-03 |accessdate=2007-01-22}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://1914-1918.invisionzone.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=54527  |title=Andrew Rigby, An obituary |author=Sue Light |publisher=Great War Forum |date=2006-06-22 |accessdate=2007-01-22(contracted; show full)/site/news.cfm?newsid=15688571&BRD=1674&PAG=461&dept_id=18041&rfi=6 |title=For Centenarian, Haircut is Old Hat|accessdate=2007-01-22|publisher=The Mercury|date=2005-12-04}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.pottsmerc.com/site/index.cfm?newsid=17534870&BRD=1674&PAG=461&dept_id=18041&rfi=8 |title=MAURICE STARKEY Death Notices|accessdate=2007-02-09|publisher=The Mercury|date=2006-12-01}}</ref>
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== References ==
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[[Category:Lists of military people]]
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