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A dog tag lost during World War I by U.S. Army soldier Private Kent Potter is seen during a ceremony where it was presented to his son Dale in Cottonwood Falls, Kansas, on Jan. 12, 2012.

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A photograph of Kent Potter and other members of the U.S. Army's 134th Infantry Division, Company M, hangs in the Chase County Historical Museaum in Cottonwood Falls.

 Somehow, maybe in a struggle to remove his helmet, Kent Potter lost his dog tag on a French battlefield in World War I.

Private Potter, who worked on an Army supply train that consisted mostly of mules and horses, survived the war and returned home to Kansas without the tag, which remained buried for more than 90 years.

At a ceremony hosted in the small town of Cottonwood Falls on Thursday, however, the worn, round metal tag finally landed back with the Potter family thanks to the efforts of two Frenchmen.

"I'm amazed that these two people in France still remember and appreciate what the United States did for their country," said Dale Potter, 75, the son and only child of Private Potter. Read the full story.

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Dale Potter, center, shows off his father's dog tag after it was presented to him, as his wife Dixie and a member of the honor guard look on.

Claude Stanley Choules, the last known combat veteran of World War I, died Thursday at a nursing home in the Western Australia city of Perth, his family said. He was 110.

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Archive photos of Claude Choules. Left: in Royal Navy uniform during the time he was assigned to the Nautical Training Ship Mercury, undated. Center: in Royal Navy uniform, 1917. Right: in Royal Australian Navy uniform aboard HMAS Canberra, 1929.

Beloved for his wry sense of humor and humble nature, the British-born Choules — nicknamed "Chuckles" by his comrades in the Australian Navy — never liked to fuss over his achievements, which included a 41-year military career and the publication of his first book at the age of 108.

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Claude Choules, the last surviving British serviceman to see conflict in WWI, is hugged by his 80-year-old daughter Anne Pow at the Gracewood Hostel in Perth, Australia on July 26, 2009.

World War I was raging when Choules began training with the British Royal Navy, just one month after he turned 14. In 1917, he joined the battleship HMS Revenge, from which he watched the 1918 surrender of the German High Seas Fleet, the main battle fleet of the German Navy during the war.

Choules and another Briton, Florence Green, became the war's last known surviving service members after the death of American Frank Buckles in February, according to the Order of the First World War, a U.S.-based group that tracks veterans.

Choules was the last known surviving combatant of the war. Green, who turned 110 in February, served as a waitress in the Women's Royal Air Force. Read the full story.

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Frank Buckles, who was the last surviving US World War I veteran. The photo on the left was taken in 1917, and the photo on the right was taken on June 18, 2008 when Buckles, then 107, was honored by members of Congress and veterans on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC.

Frank Buckles, the last surviving U.S. veteran of World War I, has died. He was 110.

Buckles, who also survived being a civilian POW in the Philippines in World War II, died peacefully of natural causes early Sunday at his home in Charles Town, biographer and family spokesman David DeJonge said in a statement. Buckles turned 110 on Feb. 1 and had been advocating for a national memorial honoring veterans of World War I in Washington, D.C.

Buckles lied about his age to join the army at age 16. The Missouri native was among nearly 5 million Americans who served in World War I in 1917 and 1918.

"I knew there'd be only one (survivor) someday. I didn't think it would be me," he was quoted as saying in recent years. Continue reading.

You can read more about Buckles' extraordinary life at the website for Pershing's Last Patriot, a documentary film slated for release this year.

The Veterans' History Project has fascinating archive material on Buckles' service, including historical photographs, audio and video interviews and his enlistment record from August 14th, 1917.