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.

Britain’s oldest man, Henry Allingham, yesterday reached another milestone in his remarkable life by becoming the oldest ever British man.

EUROPE’s oldest man, World War I veteran Henry Allingham, marked his 112th birthday yesterday by enjoying a flypast of fighter aircraft from the Battle of Britain.

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.