Wallace Pike was the last known Newfoundland

Dominion of Newfoundland

The Dominion of Newfoundland was a British Dominion from 1907 to 1949 . The Dominion of Newfoundland was situated in northeastern North America along the Atlantic coast and comprised the island of Newfoundland and Labrador on the continental mainland...

 World War I

World War I

World War I , which was predominantly called the World War or the Great War from its occurrence until 1939, and the First World War or World War I thereafter, was a major war centred in Europe that began on 28 July 1914 and lasted until 11 November 1918...

 veteran. He enlisted in the Royal Newfoundland Regiment as an underage soldier. He fought on the western front where he was wounded twice, once in the leg and once in the hand. At the end of his military service he held the rank of private. Pike died on April 11, 1999 aged 99 - just one month after the deaths of Newfoundland WWI veterans John Brinson and Alexander White.

See also

List of veterans of World War I who died in 1999
List of last surviving World War I veterans by country