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Allegiance
  
Belgium

Name
  
Cyrillus-Camillus Barbary

Service/branch
  
Belgian Land Component

Years of service
  
1918 - 1919

Battles and wars
  
World War I

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Born
  
August 4, 1899 Klerken, West Flanders, Belgium (
1899-08-04
)

Battles/wars
  
World War I (Western Front)

Died
  
September 16, 2004, Detroit, Michigan, United States

Cyrillus-Camillus Barbary (4 August 1899 – 16 September 2004) was the last known Belgian veteran of the First World War. He was born in Klerken in West Flanders. He served on the Western Front in the 2nd Regiment of the Line for the last months of the war, between May 1918 and January 1919. He emigrated to the United States with his wife in 1923. Barbary died in Detroit in September 2004 at the age of 105.

References

Cyriel Barbary Wikipedia