AUSTRALIA'S last surviving World War 1 Veteran and the country's oldest man, Jack Ross, has died.
Mr Ross passed away peacefully at Golden Oaks Nursing Home in Bendigo early this morning.
Mr Ross, who celebrated his 110th birthday in March, enlisted in the Australian Imperial Force in January, 1918.
He trained at the Wireless Training School and was posted to the 1st Battalion at Broadmeadows camp in Victoria.
The war ended before Mr Ross was posted overseas and he was discharged from the army on Christmas Eve in 1918.
Mr Ross served in the World War II as a member of the Volunteer Defence Corps.
He was awarded the 80th Anniversary Armistice Remembrance Medal, Australia's first commemorative honour, marking the 80th anniversary of the end of World War 1.
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