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Australia's last surviving WWI veteran turns 110

Jack Ross, who lives at the Golden Oaks nursing home in Bendigo in central Victoria, turned 110 on Wednesday.

Mr Ross joins a select group of the world's super centenarians as Australia's oldest man and the nation's sole surviving World War I veteran.

He enlisted to help the war effort in February 1918 but the war ended nine months later, before he saw active service.

Mr Ross' daughter Peggy Ashburn said her father was frail but otherwise in good health, eating well and not taking any medication.

Read entire article at The Sydney Morning Herald