Jack Ross (John Campbell Ross) Last surviving World War 1 soldier
(Vic., died June 2009 aged 110 - did not leave Australia nor see
active service)
Last Gallipoli non-Anzacs
Ernest Stocanne Last French survivor from Gallipoli
(Died December 1999 aged 105)
Percy Goring Last British survivor from Gallipoli
(Died WA, 27 July 2001 aged 106)
Last WW1 veteran in Australia
Claude Choules World's last surviving veteran of both WW1 and WW2. World's
last male WW1 veteran. Last WW1 veteran to die in Australia. (British born. Joined Britain's Royal Navy but moved to
Australia in the 1920s. Died WA, 5 May 2011 aged 110.)
Alec Campbell (Wikipedia)
From the free Wikipedia
Encyclopedia, which is written by volunteers.
Last man standing (smh.com.au) "Alec Campbell is 103. He is our last surviving
Anzac, and maybe a lot more. Historian Michael McKernan believes
Campbell quite possibly is the last survivor of the entire Gallipoli
campaign, lumping friend and foe together..." 25 April 2002.
Last Anzac is dead (smh.com.au)
"The last of the Anzacs, Alec Campbell, died peacefully in Hobart last
night. He was 103. He never recovered from a chest infection that struck
him down earlier this week." 17 May 2002.
Farewell
to last ANZAC digger (archived from
abc.net.au) ABC Lateline transcript. "The Prime Minister is rearranging his
schedule so he can attend the state funeral for Alec Campbell being held
in Hobart next Friday..."
Transcript, 25 May 2002.
Alec
William Campbell: Prime Minister's Address at State Funeral Service
(australianpolitics.com)
"On the very day in December 1915 that a boy soldier - exhausted,
feverish and dangerously ill - was evacuated off that perilous beach at
Anzac Cove, a few hundred yards away, his commanding General scribbled a
brief message..." 24 May 2002.
State Funeral for Alec
Campbell [pdf]
Pdf document of information originally on the Department
of Veterans' Affairs website.
Alec Campbell recalls the 1915 Anzac landing [No longer available.]
[Original url:
http://www.thelearningfederation.edu.au/featured_collection.html?showcaseObjectID=4650.
The Learning federation no longer exists.]
A sound recording of Alec Campbell, accompanied by comments on its
potential for use in the classroom. NOTE: The link no longer leads to
the recording. If anyone knows a non-password location where this recording is
now located,
please let us know at: anzacwebsites @gmail.com
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Remembering the last Anzac (abc.net.au) Broadcast
25 Apr 2014
A segment from the ABC's 7.30 Report (Tasmania) in which
some of Alec Campbell's many family members look back on his life and
the state funeral held in his honour in 2002.
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