...and then there was one.

Percy Wilson was only 15 when he enlisted as a bugler in the 69th Artillery Battery to serve in the First World War (Courtesy Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre).

Veteran Percy "Dwight" Wilson died this morning at the age of 106, leaving only one known surviving [Canadian] veteran of the First World War.

Wilson passed "peacefully" at Toronto's Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Canada's largest veterans' care facility, where flags were lowered to half-mast in honour of the veteran.

His death leaves John Babcock, who lives in Spokane, Wash., as the only surviving Canadian First World War veteran.

The rest of the story is available here.

H/t Kate at Small Dead Animals, via CAPT H.

Accordingly, now is the time at Castle Argghhh! when we dance: In Memoriam. I will repair the halyard of flagpole and we will dip the Red Ensign in salute this weekend.