Canada’s last  veteran of the Great War, John Henry Foster Babcock, died at the age of 109 at his home in Spokane, Washington, on Thursday, February 18.

Babcock enlisted in the CEF in February, 1916, at the age of 16. Because of his age, his service was restricted to Canada and England.

Babcock, who has lived in the United States for the past 60 years and had dual citizenship, will be will be cremated, and his ashes scattered in the Pacific northwest mountains.