Last post for war veteran

THE world’s last surviving First World War service member has died aged 110.

Florence Green died in her sleep at Briar House care home in King’s Lynn on Saturday. She would have celebrated her 111th birthday on 19 February.

She was believed to be the last person alive who served in the Great War after joining the Women’s Royal Air Force as a 17-year-old in the late summer of 1918. She signed up two months before the armistice and left in July 1919.