One minute silence at eleven o’clock this morning.
The last Australian, William Evan Allan, died October 17, 2005 aged 106. William was born in Bega in nsw on July 24,1899 and enlisted in the Royal Australian Navy at the outbreak of war aged just 14. He served in the RAN for 34 years seeing action in the Pacific and Indian Oceans. He took part in the hunt for the German raider Wolf, was once washed overboard in rough and icy seas and was there when the German fleet surrendered. William retired from the Navy in 1947 as a lieutenant and went back to live on the land, setting up his own farm near Frankston in Victoria. Lest We Forget