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.

GREAT WAR veteran Henry Allingham has become the world’s oldest man following the death of the previous holder of the title in Japan, Guinness World Records said.