# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-babcock
# Generated: 2026-08-13T16:36:53.408Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-babcock"
name: "John Babcock"
slug: "john-babcock"
description: "John Henry Foster Babcock was a Canadian electrician and soldier. At age 109, he was the last known surviving veteran of the Canadian military to have served in the First World War and, after the death of Harry Patch, was the conflict's oldest surviving veteran. Babcock first attempted to join the army at the age of fifteen, but was turned down and sent to work in Halifax until he was placed in the Young Soldiers Battalion in August 1917. Babcock was then transferred to the United Kingdom, where he continued his training until the end of the war."
tagline: "Canadian World War I veteran (1900–2010)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/John_Babcock_1920.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Canada"
  isoCode: "CA"
birthDate: "1900-07-23"
deathDate: "2010-02-18"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           49.05
  momentum:             3.244509848313335
  historical:           11.18312133333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "John Babcock"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "جون بابكوك"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%A4%CE%B6%CE%BF%CE%BD_%CE%9C%CF%80%CE%AC%CE%BC%CF%80%CE%BA%CE%BF%CE%BA"
    title: "Τζον Μπάμπκοκ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Babcock"
    title: "John Babcock"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Babcock"
    title: "John Babcock"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Babcock"
    title: "John Babcock"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Babcock"
    title: "John Babcock"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D5%8B%D5%B8%D5%B6_%D4%B2%D5%A5%D5%A2%D6%84%D5%B8%D6%84"
    title: "Ջոն Բեբքոք"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Babcock"
    title: "John Babcock"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Babcock"
    title: "John Babcock"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Babcock"
    title: "John Babcock"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Babcock"
    title: "John Babcock"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D1%8D%D0%B1%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%BA%2C_%D0%94%D0%B6%D0%BE%D0%BD"
    title: "Бэбкок, Джон"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1919579"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump