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November 11, 2009
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AAP General News (Australia)
11-11-2009
WA: Last British WWI veteran releases autobiography in WA

PERTH, Nov 11 AAP - Britain's last surviving WWI veteran, who went on to fight for
the Australian navy in WWII, has notched another accolade - as a first-time author at
the age of 108.

Claude Choules, who is also the last known Great War veteran living in Australia, enlisted
with Britain's Royal Navy at just 15 in 1916 and later served with HMS Revenge.

Now living in a Perth retirement village, his autobiography, The Last of the Last,
was released nationally on November 2.

His publisher, Peter Bridge, told AAP the book followed the war veteran from his idyllic
childhood in England, growing ...

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