POLITICIANS, military chiefs, relatives and hundreds of strangers bade farewell yesterday to Henry Allingham, the world’s oldest man and one of Britain’s last survivors of World War I.

Henry Allingham, the world’s oldest man, died today at the age of 113, his care home said.

FOUR World War I veterans - the youngest of them 104 - have paraded in central London for the 90th anniversary of a conflict that killed around 10 million people and shaped the modern world.