John "Jack" Ross, Australia's last World War One soldier.

[arnisador]

Australia's last World War One soldier dies, aged 110

The last remaining Australian to serve in World War One has died at the age of 110, Veterans' Affairs Minister Alan Griffin said on Wednesday.

John "Jack" Ross, who was also Australia's oldest man having turned 110 in March, died in his sleep early Wednesday morning at a nursing home in Bendigo in the state of Victoria.

 

[Bill Mattocks]

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[terryl965]

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[celtic_crippler]

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[Sukerkin]

"It now falls to Australians everywhere to ensure that veterans memory is kept alive. We must ensure that their contribution to Australia's wartime history is passed on to future generations, so that their sacrifice is never forgotten"

Quite so.

 

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[Andy Moynihan]

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[Rich Parsons]

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[Senjojutsu]

They went with songs to the battle, they were young.
Straight of limb, true of eyes, steady and aglow.
They were staunch to the end against odds uncounted,
They fell with their faces to the foe.
They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning,
We will remember them.

Lest we forget,

... and to Jack & all the men who made it through the "eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month".
RIP