Alois Vocásek | |
Birth Date: | 1896 4, df=yes |
Birth Place: | Pečky, Austria-Hungary |
Death Place: | Prague, Czech Republic |
Branch: | Czechoslovak Legions |
Battles: | World War I |
Laterwork: | Fascist organisation Vlajka in the 1930s |
Alois Vocásek (13 April 1896 – 9 August 2003) was the last surviving Czechoslovakian veteran of the World War I and the last survivor of the Battle of Zborov in Ukraine. He was one of thousands of Czechs and Slovaks who broke with the Austro-Hungarian monarchy to fight for the future Czechoslovak state as members of the Czechoslovak Legions. He was later controversial because of his membership in the Czech fascist/nationalist organisation Vlajka in the 1930s.[1]
He was the oldest member of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in the Czech Republic. He is buried at the Olšany Cemetery.[2]