Alice Strike

Alice Mary Strike (31 August 1896 – 22 December 2004) was the last surviving female Canadian military First World War veteran.

She was so designated as she lived in Canada after the war, but had actually served in the British armed forces.

[2] She married her first husband, a Canadian man named James Stobie Sr., whom she met in Woking, England, during World War I, and later relocated to Winnipeg, Manitoba, where she had four children with him over forty years.

She also had a son, James Stobie Jr., of Victoria, British Columbia, four grandchildren, seven great-grandchildren and three great-great-grandchildren at the time of her death.

Strike died, aged 108, at Camp Hill Veterans Hospital, Halifax, Nova Scotia.