Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p Harry John Newcombe (5 August 1900 – 18 March 2006) was, at age 105, one of only a few surviving British veterans of the First World War when he died in 2006.Newcombe was born in Islington and joined the British Army in 1918 as a private in the Royal Sussex Regiment. When the war ended, he was still in training. He did however spend a year in Germany as part of the army of occupation. Following the war he resumed his trade as a railwayman, retiring in 1965.. }
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- Harry_Newcombe comment "Harry John Newcombe (5 August 1900 – 18 March 2006) was, at age 105, one of only a few surviving British veterans of the First World War when he died in 2006.Newcombe was born in Islington and joined the British Army in 1918 as a private in the Royal Sussex Regiment. When the war ended, he was still in training. He did however spend a year in Germany as part of the army of occupation. Following the war he resumed his trade as a railwayman, retiring in 1965.".