Alois Vocásek
Alois Vocásek | |
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Born | ![]() | 18 April 1896
Died | 9 August 2003![]() | (aged 107)
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Battles/wars | World War I
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Other work | Fascist organisation Vlajka in the 1930s |
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Alois Vocásek (13 April 1896 – 9 August 2003) was the last surviving Czechoslovakian veteran of the First World War and the last survivor of the Battle of Zborov in Ukraine. He was one of thousands of Czechs and Slovaks who broke with the Austro-Hungarian monarchy to fight for the future Czechoslovak state as members of the Czechoslovak Legions. He was later controversial because of his membership in the Czech fascist/nationalist organisation Vlajka in the 1930s.[1]
He was the oldest member of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in the Czech Republic. He is buried at the Olšany Cemetery.[2]
See also[]
- List of last surviving World War I veterans by country
References[]
- ^ Oldest Czech legionnaire was never able to clear tarnished reputation Retrieved 6 September 2018
- ^ Jetelina Bedřich (13 August 2003). "Zemřel nejstarší žijící český adventista" (in Czech). Seventh-day Adventist Church in the Czech Republic. Retrieved 10 September 2011.
Categories:
- 1896 births
- 2003 deaths
- Czechoslovak military personnel of World War I
- Czechoslovak Legion personnel
- People of the Russian Civil War
- White movement people
- Men centenarians
- Czech centenarians
- Czech nationalists
- Czech anti-communists
- Czech Seventh-day Adventists
- European military personnel stubs
- Czech people stubs