Elsbeth Hamilton

Elsbeth Hamilton (5 December 1920 – 3 May 2025) was a Czechoslovak-born British radio operator, World War II veteran, and social worker, who served in the Royal Air Force's Women's Auxiliary Air Force with the rank of Lance Corporal 2nd Class. Hamilton was the last known surviving Czechoslovak veteran of World War II in the United Kingdom.

Biography Hamilton was born Eliška Süsslandová to a Czech Jewish family on 5 December 1920, in the Vinohrady district of Prague, Czechoslovakia. She fled to the United Kingdom following the 1938 Munich Agreement, in which Nazi Germany annexed the Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia, and settled in Oxford, England.

Hamilton died in Oxford on 3 May 2025, at the age of 104. She was the last surviving Czechoslovak veteran of World War II in the United Kingdom, and one of just 67 surviving Czech veterans of World War II, as of 2025.