SYDNEY - British born Claude Choules, 110, regarded as the last combat World War One veteran, died in his sleep in an Australian nursing home during the night, his family said Thursday.
"He always said that elderly people make decisions that send young men to war," said his son Adrian Choules.
"He used to say, if it was the reverse and the former... were out of combat, then there would never wars", Adrian Choules told local media.
Choules was born in 1901 and signed with the British Navy to the great war at just 15 years.
After the war, he moved to Perth and joined the Australian Navy, working as an agent of the demolition in the port of Fremantle in the second world war, making him the last veteran who has served in both world wars.
The only other surviving war veteran world is supposed to be Florence Green Britain, also 110, who served with the Royal Air Force in a combat role.
In 2009, Choules has published a book on his life, the "last of the last".
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