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China Daily | Updated: 2009-07-20 07:50
Oldest man, WW I veteran, dies
Henry Allingham, the world's oldest man and World War I veteran who put his longevity down to "cigarettes, whisky and wild, wild women", died on Saturday at the age of 113. He died peacefully in his sleep at a nursing home on the southern English coast.
Queen Elizabeth II and Prime Minister Gordon Brown led the tributes to Allingham.
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