This is a list of the last surviving veterans of the Chaco War, fought between Bolivia and Paraguay from 1932 to 1935.
Veterans from Bolivia[]
| #
|
Name
|
Sex
|
Birth
|
Death
|
Age
|
Note
|
| 1
|
Samuel Chuquimia Murillo
|
M
|
15 Aug 1916 |
Living
|
108 years, 151 days
|
Last Bolivian soldier of the Chaco War
|
| 2
|
Jose Alejandro Pradel Loayza
|
M
|
17 July 1914 |
3 Sept 2022
|
108 years, 48 days
|
Penultimate Bolivian soldier of the Chaco War
|
| 3
|
Emeterio Ernesto Talavera Shock
|
M
|
10 Mar 1918 |
7 Feb 2022
|
103 years, 334 days
|
Antepenultimate Bolivian soldier of the War
|
| 4
|
Angelica Ordonez Colondro
|
F
|
26 Apr 1910 |
12 Mar 2021
|
110 years, 320 days
|
Last Bolivian female soldier of the Chaco War
|
| 5
|
Miguel Siñániz Vigabriel
|
M
|
29 Sept 1918 |
27 July 2021
|
102 years, 301 days
|
Last soldier in the city of El Alto
|
| 6
|
Benigno Garrado Peñaranda
|
M
|
28 Feb 1912 |
2 Feb 2021
|
108 years, 340 days
|
Last soldier in Villa Montes
|
| 7
|
Marcelino Guzman Alarcon
|
M
|
5 June 1914 |
2 Jan 2021
|
106 years, 211 days
|
Penultimate soldier in the city of La Paz
|
| 8
|
Pedro Pocubé Müller
|
M
|
29 June 1916 |
18 Dec 2020
|
104 years, 172 days
|
Last soldier in San José de Chiquitos
|
| 9
|
René Numa Avila del Carpio
|
F
|
17 Nov 1913 |
15 Nov 2020
|
106 years, 364 days
|
Last Bolivian cadet of the Chaco War
|
| 10
|
Avelino Alcocer Cow
|
M
|
10 Feb 1915 |
12 May 2020
|
105 years, 92 days
|
Last soldier in San Ignacio de Velasco
|
Veterans from Paraguay[]
| #
|
Name
|
Sex
|
Birth
|
Death
|
Age
|
| 1
|
Virgilio Davalos
|
M
|
8 Oct 1914 |
Living
|
110 years, 97 days
|
| 2
|
Jose Domingo Vargas
|
M
|
15 Sept 1915 |
18 May 2024
|
108 years, 308 days
|
| 3
|
Canuto Gonzalez
|
M
|
19 Jan 1916 |
Living
|
108 years, 359 days
|
| 5
|
Juan Bautista Cantero
|
M
|
15 February 1917 |
Living
|
107 years, 332 days
|
| 5
|
Anselmo Zayas Garcete
|
M
|
April 1918 |
Living
|
106 years, 287 days/106 years, 258 days
|
| 6
|
Carmelo Ayala Sosa
|
M
|
16 July 1919 |
13 Apr 2023
|
103 years, 272 days
|
| 7
|
Antolin Sanchez
|
M
|
1 Sept 1915 |
21 Sept 2022
|
107 years, 20 days
|
| 8
|
Sixto Vazquez Diarte
|
M
|
6 Aug 1915 |
14 Aug 2022
|
107 years, 8 days
|
| 9
|
Basilio Gonzalez
|
M
|
13 June 1913 |
22 July 2022
|
109 years, 39 days
|
| 10
|
Enrique Caballero
|
M
|
15 July 1915 |
27 Aug 2021
|
106 years, 43 days
|
| 11
|
Ignacio Trinidad Medina
|
M
|
31 July 1913 |
27 Feb 2021
|
107 years, 211 days
|
| 12
|
Lorenzo Achar Valenzuela
|
M
|
10 Aug 1910 |
5 Sept 2020
|
110 years, 26 days
|
| 13
|
Heriberto Oviedo Melgarejo
|
M
|
16 Mar 1911 |
3 Apr 2020
|
109 years, 18 days
|
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