Charlotte Winters

Charlotte Louise Berry Winters (November 10, 1897 – March 27, 2007) was, at age 109, the last surviving female American veteran of The First World War.

When the Navy opened support roles to women, Charlotte and her sister, Sophie, joined in 1917.

She served from 1917 to 1919 at the Naval Gun Factory in the Washington Navy Yard as a clerk.

Winters helped to found the National Yeoman (F) Association in 1926 and served as its eighth commander in 1940 and 1941.

[1][2] At the time of her death, she was the oldest living World War I veteran in the US, leaving only three living World War I female veterans left in the world, then-108-year-old Gladys Powers, 107-year-old Ivy Campany and 106-year-old Florence Green, who served for the United Kingdom.