British World War I Veteran Dies Aged 108 in Australia

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London - One of the five remaining British veterans of World War I has died at the age of 108 in Australia, where he moved in 1928, the BBC reported Thursday.

Sydney Maurice Lucas, who was born in Leicester, in central England, on September 21, 1900, regularly led the annual Anzac Day parade in Melbourne, said the report.

He was among the last batch of conscripts to be called up in August, 1918. In World War II, he volunteered for the Australian army in June, 1940, and was posted to a machine gun unit.

Lucas died on 4 November near Melbourne.

He emigrated to Australia in 1928, where another of the known World War I survivors, 107-year-old Claude Choules, still lives today.

Three of the veterans still alive in Britain are expected to attend this year's official celebrations to remember the war dead.

Henry Allingham, 112, Harry Patch, 110 and Bill Stone, 108, are scheduled to lead a two-minute silence at a ceremony remembering the dead of World War I in London on November 11.



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