Henry Allingham, the world's oldest man and the oldest surviving British veteran of World War I, has died at the age of 113 in Oving-dean, England. Born June 6,1896, in London, Allingham joined the Royal Naval Air Service as an aircraft mechanic in 1915.rnAt the Battle of Jutland, Allingham served aboard the armed trawler HMT Kingfisher, which was sent to meet up with the British fleet as it fought the Germans off the coast of what now is mainland Denmark.
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