Last Female First World War Veteran Dies

Gladys Powers, born in England in 1899, she lied about her age to join the British Women's Army Auxiliary Corps and then served in the British Women's Royal Air Force as a waitress. During the war she met Canadian soldier, Ed Luxford, and came to Canada as a War Bride. Gladys Powers moved to Abbotsford BC in 1992, where she lived at Valhaven Rest Home until her death at the age of 109.