Filip Costa

Filip Hendrik Costa (20 June 1900-7 October 2006) was a Brunanter-Libertan veteran of the First and Second World Wars, and the last surviving soldier of World War I in Brunant.

Biography
Costa was born in Koningstad. He listed his date of birth as 20 June 1900 upon enlisting, but could have been born in 1901. His baptismal records were lost in a fire, but census records from 1906 list 2 June 1901, but all subsequent official documents use 20 June 1900.

Costa volunteered for the Royal Guard in August 1917, preferring that to likely conscription in 1918. He was sent to the 12th Infantry Company. He would be promoted to Corporal in 1919, demoted to private in 1921 for misconduct, promoted again to Corporal in 1924 and then on to sergeant in 1927. He left the military in 1928.

Costa enlisted again in 1941 as a volunteer. He was posted as a reservist in Carrington due to his age, but the German amphibious assault (20-21 May) near the town saw him join the fighting troops. He was captured on the 21st and kept imprisoned until July.