Gertrude E. Noone, Oldest Living Military Veteran, Dies At 110

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DERBY — - Gertrude Noone, who since July was the world's oldest living military veteran, died Thursday at an assisted-living facility in Milford and was buried Saturday with full military honors. She was 110.

Noone was a 44-year-old clerk at Travelers in Hartford in 1943 when she enlisted in the Women's Army Corps.

She attained the rank of sergeant first class and was serving as chief clerk of a dispensary at Fort Myer, Va., when she left the Army in 1949. After the Army, she worked as an administrative assistant at a private psychiatric hospital in Stamford before retiring in 1962.

In March, Secretary of the Army Pete Geren traveled to Milford to honor Noone as the oldest living Army veteran. Noone became the oldest living veteran July 25, when British World War I veteran Harry Patch died.

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