Alfred Benjamin Finnigan (18 September 1896 – 11 May 2005) was a United Kingdom soldier who fought in World War I and gained fame because of his longevity.

[1] Finnigan's family emigrated to Australia when he was a boy, where he gained experience with horses that was to stand him in good stead when he joined the Army in 1914.

He was posted to France in 1916 as the driver of a team of six horses pulling an 18-pounder gun with the 15th Brigade Royal Field Artillery.

Finnigan was also an atheist, mainly because his mother was a strict Catholic who had a very hard life and died a terrible death with cancer.

[citation needed] Along with other surviving World War I servicemen, he was awarded the French Légion d’Honneur in 1998.